Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backlog can only be blamed on success-not Communist inefficiency. Aside from putting Red bosses in charge of the operation, Walter Ulbricht's government has refrained from tampering with Meissen's time-honored techniques. As a result, Meissen continues to demonstrate its 257-year-old knack for producing exquisite china. The translucent, ornately decorated product commands capitalist prices: a twelve-place dinner service in the famed blue and white "onion" pattern sells for around $900, and more elaborate patterns can run $4,500 and up. And even though few, if any, East Germans can afford to spend that...
This convocation calls upon the Federal Government to develop an emergency work program to provide jobs and new training opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed consistent with the following principles: > Cooperation of government and of private industry to assure that meaningful work is available. > Concentration on the backlog of employment needs in parks, streets, slums, countryside, schools, colleges, libraries and hospitals. The program should have as its first goal putting at least 1,000,000 of the unemployed into productive work at the earliest possible moment. > The program must provide meaningful jobs-not dead-end, make-work projects...
...reptile embroidered on them, sell exceedingly well. Last year the Paris-based firm of Chemise Lacoste sold 1,700,000 of the shirts, 50% in France and the remainder in the crocodile-alligator world beyond. This month, as Lacoste's factories reopen after a vacation layoff, the order backlog has reached 200,000, and Chemise Lacoste has also gotten an unexpected bonus. Catherine Lacoste, 22-year-old daughter of Founder Rene Lacoste, last month outplayed the pros and, as an amateur, won the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Hot Springs, Va. "I don't know...
...major innovation of this drive, in Pusey's view, was the frankness with which it expressed the College's backlog of needs. The fact that it was successful allowed Princeton and other colleges to begin major capital campaigns...
...million Program for Harvard College. "It took a lot of persuading to convince people that the goal was realistic," he recalls. "Nowhere near that much had been raised before." The major innovation of this drive, in Pusey's view, was the frankness with which it expressed the College's backlog of needs. The fact that it was successful allowed Princeton and other colleges to begin major capital campaigns...