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Word: backlogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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They felt and still feel certain that they could win a state election, but they also felt certain that a backlog of other cases meant that any state election would be months away. Furthermore, the BGMA and BCMC officers argued that the final resolution of the dispute was even further away since they felt sure that the BSEIU would appeal the results of the election...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: A Troubled Year For Labor Relations | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...with the "fault principle" in most auto accidents-which means that the insurer would pay off its own policyholder, regardless of who was to blame. Advocates of this plan contend that it would cut costs by ending interminable haggling over claims. At the same time, it would reduce the backlog of cases which is clogging the nation's court calendars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: The Cost of Casualties | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...glossy new quarters, New York's Metropolitan Opera cannot satisfy the growing demand for tickets. The waiting list for season subscriptions numbers 7,000. This past season, the backlog of mail orders for individual tickets mounted to 5,000 by November, after which the Met accepted no more, and thousands of opera fans were turned away from the box office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Met for the Masses | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

Petitions were filed by different groups with the State Labor Relations Commission, which will eventually decide, either by a judgment or an election, which group actually represents the craftsmen of Harvard. The decision is not due for some time since the State Commission has a huge backlog of cases created by new laws allowing public school teachers to bargain. Meanwhile the B&G crtfatsmen continued to work under a contract signed...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: A Harvard Labor Union Finds Bargaining Difficult | 2/18/1967 | See Source »

McDonnell is betting that new money and his own management will not only help unsnarl Douglas' production lines, choked with a $3.2 billion backlog in jet-airliner orders, but build a team able "to compete successfully for any future aerospace program." Lewis, a Georgia Tech-educated aeronautical engineer who will move into Douglas as soon as the merger is final, last week got an idea of the size of his job. The company did not even match Donald Jr.'s dismal prediction last July that fiscal 1966 "earnings, if any, would be nominal." It announced a $27 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Under the Umbrella | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

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