Word: backlogging
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...month after dorms opened, had yet to receive telephone service. Lines have yet to be installed in parts of Leverett and Adams Houses. Officials have blamed the delays on the House renovations, as well as the phone strike which was settled in late August and created a backlog in services...
...advance professionally. Rejection as a model cut more deeply than rejection as a student because it was myself--my face, my figure, my smile--being rebuffed, sometimes tactfully, often abruptly, on a daily basis. I eked out a living for several months, feeling insignificant and doomed. Without a backlog of experience to reassure me that my smile had not vanished for good, I learned exactly how difficult it can be for a young person to accept failure philosophically...
...advance professionally Rejection as a model cut more deeply than rejection as a student because it was myself my face my figure my smile being rebuffed sometimes tactfully, often abruptly on a daily basis I eked out a living for several months feeling insignificant and doomed Without a backlog of experience to reassure me that my smile had not vanished for good. I learned exactly how difficult it can be for a young person to accept failure philosophically...
...materials-handling equipment, shrank from $20 million to less than $5 million as the peso became worth less and less and the austerity program began taking hold. A loan the company has from Philadelphia's Girard Bank now exceeds its entire peso capital. The firm's order backlog, usually nine months, has dropped to four. Company President Carlos Lopez has been forced to close down two of his company's three plants and lay off 362 of his 509 workers...
...even some apparent signs of weakness are actually harbingers of strength. The Government last month cut its estimate of first-quarter G.N.P. growth from the previously reported 3.1% to 2.5%. But the revision was disguised good news, because it included an $8 billion drop in manufacturing inventories. Without that backlog of unsold goods, firms will have to hire more workers and step up production to meet rising demand...