Word: backlogging
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...Vote Re the quote in "Back & Forth" about letting thousands of voting machines stay broken for November's election because of a scheduling backlog [Sept. 1]: We can find water on Mars and land a man on the moon, but we can't produce a working voting machine in eight years? Heads should roll. Norma Wilkinson, Long Beach, California...
...global sales campaign may be a good idea. In August, the Art Newspaper reported that Hirst's London gallery White Cube had a backlog of over 200 of his unsold works, worth more than $185 million. If the story is correct - the gallery says it's not, but hasn't detailed how many Hirsts it has on hand - it would mean that Hirst has run into that age-old problem of factory production: excess inventory. A few weeks ago Bloomberg.com quoted Robert Sandelson, a London gallerist who has dealt in Hirst, about the "pressure" that overproduction has placed...
...waved them off saying they had no right to do so. The VA said that Congress had set up an administrative - not judicial - process for evaluating individual disability claims. The veterans, it declared, just had to wait for bureaucracy to take its course - no matter that it has a backlog of 600,000 unresolved claims, each of which can take up to six months or more to process...
...suit claims that the VA violates the constitutional rights of PTSD victims by denying them medical care and benefits as well as the power to hire outside attorneys and obtain records in their disability petitions. Proponents of the suit point out that the VA's immense backlog of claims leads to delays in treatment, often compounding PTSD symptoms, contributing to substance abuse and suicide...
...finding out about it through friends who have had treatment, and friends of friends, and they're turning up at their physicians specifically requesting CyberKnife." More than 100 hospitals worldwide have this $4 million robotic radiotherapy system; two-thirds of them are in the U.S. Accuray's order backlog has reached $600 million...