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This investment would preserve about 6,000 city apartments and prevent a new backlog of city-owned apartments, city officials said.

All of this has created a huge backlog of work at the city's parks office.

"There was a backlog of waste in this city going back 70 years.

Faced with overcrowded prisons and a backlog of state prisoners in city and county jails, the state's Board of Correction voted to grant early release to 560 inmates.

But with a backlog of some 300 cases, city lawyers are anticipating more sizable payouts, including some related to a Justice Department lawsuit alleging bias in the entrance exam for the Fire Department.

Given the city's backlog of cases, any trial would probably not begin for at least a year.

With New York's huge backlog of critical infrastructure needs, the city will be hard pressed to come up with adequate capital for the airports' continuing renewal programs.

It was not until 2006, when grant money from the Justice Department helped jump-start the city's backlog of cold-case homicide investigations, that new DNA tests of bloodstains from the crime scene led to the arrest of a man named Glen Francis, who was then living in Canada.

The firm essentially shut down in September, despite having a heavy backlog of orders.After worker protests, the city government settled contract claims.

They said that between Dec. 5 and Jan . 5 the city had cleared a backlog of as many as 900 cases of suspended students awaiting disciplinary hearings.

Apollo Carey, an attorney for Ferguson, admitted to the court that the city had a large backlog of cases.