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...Tool Co., a precision machining shop with 23 employees and a twelve-month backlog of customer orders in the aircraft and defense industries, is typical of a crisis that is quietly brewing on the shop floors of the nation's plants and factories. From the tiny machine shops of New England to the aerospace hangar sheds of the West Coast, American industry is being squeezed and constricted by a shortage of skilled labor...
Californians beat the backlog...
...board's energy conservation plan will be difficult to regulate, especially considering the backlog of cases now facing the board, Cambridge tenant David Travers said, adding that the 1979 rent control hearings are just now being completed...
...Opportunity Commission (EEOC) doubled, to 8,000; similar state and local agencies probably received another 8,000. Under the federal law, all complainants must start at the EEOC, which tries to solve problems without filing lawsuits. Many, however, are put off by the commission's 4,000-case backlog and its informal system of mediating disputes. They would rather take their fight to court, which they may do once their claim has been at the EEOC for 60 days...
...Landers, died, and the Chicago Sun-Times ran a contest to find a successor; Eppie won by loading her sample answers with expert advice from such stellar sources as Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Sister Pauline volunteered to help answer the backlog of 5,000 letters...