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...accept the decision," says William Polkinghorn, senior counsel for Bank of America, who takes part in about half a dozen such proceedings each year. Though popular first in contract and labor disputes, rent-a-judging has spread to malpractice, family law and other areas: 70% of Judicate's caseload involves personal-injury suits...
Legislators also fear that the patent office's action will open the floodgates to an unlimited patenting of new breeds of animals. Fourteen thousand similar patent applications are currently pending on the office's caseload...
State agencies have failed to follow up on most deinstitutionalized patients. The ones they do follow up on are handed off to caseworkers, each of whom shoulders a caseload of more than 100 patients. That's more than any one caseworker could ever keep track of, much less help...
...occasion the government has felt obliged to draft white-collar bureaucrats into the military, thereby creating manpower problems in civilian life. When a tax officer who had been employed at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance was killed at the front, no one took over his ministry caseload. "During the last few offensives, the authorities have had to ^ mobilize the educated bureaucracy," says Rizvi. "The result is that many departments have lost competent people...
...about careers, then eventually about how college might expand their opportunities. "Our kids are extraordinarily modest," says Miller, but by the end of junior year he has guided and goaded most into deciding whether and even where they will apply. "Everyone could do it if they had a small caseload," he says, downplaying his achievement. Next fall some 80% of the graduating class is expected to go to college...