Word: backlogging
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...slow policy of production, which has never quite matched demand. A big item in its current surge is its Model 250 sedans, which boast 2.5 liter engines and price tags of $4,000 and up. Introduced in early 1966, the popular 250 drew a two-year order backlog. That has kept production humming while competitors like Volkswagen have been forced to cut back...
...social and geographic areas that they previously were unable to reach effectively. And long after their issues are off the newsstands, the colleges send reprints of their ads (we provide 2,000 free and any additional at cost) to alumni and friends. Although we now have a very large backlog of ads that we have promised to run, we are still receiving and considering new ads from worthy colleges...
Vietnam, Huntington says, is the first country in which the U.S. has involved itself without a previous history of cultural or academic contact. Because Vietnam was always considered the property of the French, it was largely ignored by American scholarship, and Huntington feels that a backlog of literature and of "old Vietnam hands" in the State Department might have significantly contributed to understanding in the early stage of American commitment. "This gap in knowledge and understanding has directly contributed to the shrillness and superficiality of much of the debate over American policy," he wrote recently in Asian Survey...
...they can pocket unreported cash fees. Some doctors who do participate are enjoying hugely increased incomes because now they are sought out by patients formerly kept away by pride and poverty. The biggest boom has been in dental services, for which there was a huge and largely unrecognized backlog demand. When Medicaid started, New York paid out less than $1,000,000 in a three-month period for welfare recipients' dental care. Now the quarterly bite is almost $10 million...
...Almost all the guys are now either back in school, out for just a year or in the service. The backlog may be used up," he concluded...