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Word: backlogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the peak of her bout with depression in 1993, Kelleher admits she fell behind on her work. However, she claims in her trial brief that after drug therapy she started to catch up to the backlog and her work was again on time by the beginning...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Journal Editor Sues Harvard, Citing Discrimination | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...that may harm ? and kill ? Americans at home in the next century. "The U.S. needs a strong and effective United Nations to deal with problems such as terrorism," says Dowell. Even Kosovo couldn?t be resolved without bringing it back to the U.N. Paying its outstanding $1 billion dues backlog to the U.N. ?- which President Clinton promised Tuesday to press for ?- may help the U.S. reclaim its natural leadership role in the organization, but it won?t be enough. If the U.N. is to be effective in dealing with the multiple international dangers of the next century, Washington will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Wants the U.N. Beefed Up ? or Does He? | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

Rain the previous day had created a backlog in the draw, so matches were halted as soon as one team reached the deciding fourth point...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 16 M. Tennis Breaks Pepperdine Jinx | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Citing various difficulties which immigrants face in their efforts to learn English, including a shortage of accessible English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, Narasaki said, "These proposals are particularly confusing when you consider the [two-year backlog] for federal ESL courses...

Author: By Joshua S. Carson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Narasaki Advocates Political Rights | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album is a tedious, dispiriting task not unlike sorting a backlog of junk e-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hello Nasty: The Beastie Boys | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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