And, yes, he has auditioned other framemakers to make a dent in the Rivendell backlog but--as one might expect--has found them all wanting.
However, the hospital trust said a backlog of non-emergency, planned (elective) operations was expected to reach 400 by the end of the month.
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Wood argues, however, that a big chunk of Boeing's seven-year backlog would need to evaporate quickly for the market's fears--and Boeing's current price--to be justified.
Like Airbus, Boeing has a big backlog of single-aisle orders.
Mr Dunford accepted that the measures the government had put in place were having an effect but said the substantial backlog of under-recruitment meant other steps needed to be taken.
Investigators comb crime scenes ever more finely for new kinds of evidence, which is creating problems with the tracking and storage of evidence, so that even as the criminals leave fewer traces of themselves behind, a backlog of cold-case evidence is building up.
An enormous backlog of cases - running to 120, 000 by the end of 2009, which would have taken 46 years to clear if the court had continued to work at the same pace - made it imperative that the court's functions be streamlined, especially for minor cases.
The Committee noted that a long-standing backlog of consumer complaints had been dealt with.
That is contributing to an 11-month backlog of 2.5 million loans ripe for foreclosure.
Investors can only hope the NYSE's 800-case backlog will catch most industry crooks before they steal that much.
At the time of the inspection last year, the marriage-related backlog was growing at a rate of 700 cases a month.
Armed with a 130-year-old Flather lathe and a 50-year-old Van Norman milling machine, the pair churn out only 100 reels a year and have a three-year backlog.
What's more, carmakers in Europe produced some four million cars last year that they have yet to sell - a backlog that would take about three months or more to clear at current sales rates.
One caveat about buying Dawson is that the stock has a very small float of just 5.1 million shares (and 5.6 million total outstanding shares), even after a recent secondary stock offering to finance the purchase of more equipment and to hire more crews to fill its nine-month backlog of orders for service.
The figures come on the same day the Chief Inspector of Borders John Vine warned that thousands of overseas students may have been allowed to stay in Britain illegally because UK Border Agency staff failed to check out tip-offs about them - a backlog of 153, 000 had built up at one point, he said.
Mr Neal said there was backlog of about a day-and-a-half of mail which was now being cleared.
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Ms Roche defended the government's record on dealing with asylum applications, saying the backlog was at a seven-year low.
Sadik-Khan says she's working on express buses as a way around a 70-year federal backlog in subway and rail construction.
The company has exercised options to add three additional high specification jackup rigs to its construction backlog and a fourth ultra-deepwater drillship, Williams said.
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Postponements during December and January have handed Barrow a fixture backlog which will mean a two-games a week schedule between now and the end of the season.
The U.S. patent office, moreover, has minimal expertise in software, and is facing a growing backlog of applications, encouraging under-resourced patent examiners to err on the side of granting applications.
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But it now has a backlog of some 120, 000 cases - if it continues to work at its present pace, it would take 46 years to clear them, our correspondent says.
In particular, it revealed the regulator had a high turnover of staff - about a third were leaving each year - and was facing a backlog of 4, 500 cases dating back as far as seven years.
Lower mortgage rates should help homebuilder Meritage (nyse: MTH - news - people) sustain its backlog of new home orders.
The defense and aerospace company beat top-line estimates and revealed a record backlog, while guiding aggressively for fiscal 2013.
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It may take many hours, days, weeks, even months (depending on your backlog) to go through each pile and e-mail, but once you do it you are on your way.
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