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...House aide: "There was great confusion in the beginning-and it lasted longer 'than most people thought was appropriate." Much of the confusion has been ironed out-with the help of all those added staffers and simply more time to get on top of the job. Meanwhile, a backlog of 314,000 unanswered letters has been cleared up, and the extra staff helps to handle the mail load, which averages 75,000 letters a week...
Other parts of A.M.C.'s business have been doing well. The Jeep division is setting sales records, and at year's end AM General had a huge backlog of orders for buses. As for passenger cars, cost cutting has reduced A.M.C.'s breakeven point, some observers estimate, to fewer than 300,000 autos a year. The company may be able to sell at least that many if predictions come true that total car sales in the U.S. this year will hit 11 million-but in the past few weeks that has become a giant "if." American Motors...
Massachusetts has six of the twelve county courts in the country with the longest delay before a case comes to trial, the report said. The backlog of criminal cases in the Superior Court has reached 35,000 cases...
...output of goods and services to 3%-or less. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, says the prime reason for the slowdown is that businessmen piled up big inventories early this year, and had to hold back on new orders until the backlog was reduced. Greenspan believes the economy will pick up speed in the current quarter and go on expanding strongly through...
While lobbying through his reforms, the chief justice was also wielding his official and personal power to chop into a horrifying backlog of cases. He drafted 55 retired or underworked judges to dispose of hundreds of appeals cases that had languished for as long as five years. Result: the backlog is gone. Since 1973 the appellate docket has been "current," a rarity for state courts. By mixing public praise for jurists who cut their trial backlog with private tongue-lashings for those who did not, Heflin achieved a 16% drop in criminal trial delays in the face...