Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reject these views of the causes of crime as simplistic and politically oriented. I have stressed that we must eradicate the poverty and deprivation which breed crime; urged an end to the drug traffic which promotes crime; discussed the need to end the backlog of court cases which undercuts our criminal process; argued that the Supreme Court does not promote crime by protecting individual liberties; and I have proposed specific programs of federal assistance to upgrade police personnel at the local level...
...consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million backlog of orders ranging from landfill work in San Francisco Bay to tunnel and powerhouse projects at New Zealand's Manapouri...
...even when the strike ended, Bell Tel would never be able to wade through the backlog. So we thought...
Unknown to the world outside, Warsaw Pact troops were pouring across Czechoslovakia's borders. In his White House basement office, Walt Rostow was routinely examining the backlog of paper that accumulates each evening on the desk of the President's special assistant for national security. The first hint of crisis came at 7:05 p.m., when Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told Rostow by telephone: "I have a message from Moscow which I am translating. I have been instructed to give it orally to the President...
...much and create the risk of a mini-recession. To offset such economic drags as a sharp drop in steel buying, a leveling off in defense outlays and the anticipated decline in consumer spending, the Administration counts on a major rebound in housing construction. Yet despite a huge backlog of unfilled demand for new housing, the result of the 1966 credit squeeze that crippled the industry for a year, no such upturn seems likely unless interest rates continue to fall...