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Asylum seekers. Until a few years ago, applications were rare, totaling 200 in 1975. Suddenly, asylum is the plea of choice in the U.S. and around the world, often as a cover for economic migration. U.S. applications were up to 103,000 last year, and the backlog tops 300,000 cases. Under the present asylum rules, practically anyone who declares that he or she is fleeing political oppression has a good chance to enter the U.S. Chinese are almost always admitted, for example, if they claim that China's birth-control policies have limited the number of children they...
Right now, 95% of German households participate in the program, generating 400,000 tons of sorted trash annually. But DSD can recycle little more than 125,000 tons a year. Meanwhile, because of the backlog and the failure of many participating companies to pay their full dues, DSD has plunged $500 million into debt. Much of the money is owed to local governments for collection and storage of refuse; Frankfurt and Stuttgart are threatening to sue DSD or quit the program...
...take unexpected or unusual steps to achieve peace. I said that I do not believe we can achieve peace without a meeting between the top political leaders of the two countries, because peace by correspondence has no meaning in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with its emotional backlog of hatred and suspicion. It has to be done in a way that would signal to both peoples that their leaders had decided to put an end to war and establish peace...
With tens of thousands of asbestos cases pending in U.S. courts, a Maryland judge two years ago sought to ease the backlog by consolidating more than 8,500 claims of negligence and liability. Now the first and most significant phase of the nation's single largest asbestos trial has ended with a big victory for the plaintiffs. After 12 hours of deliberation, a jury found seven companies liable for manufacturing asbestos products that they knew or should have known were dangerous to workers handling them...
There is also a need to invest in education to combat with the "backlog of generations" who were uneducated in the past, Marx said...