But other factors are material - backlog and tendering outlook are strong, and Petrofac is more defensive than many engineering and construction peers by having limited offshore exposure, a significant proportion of national oil company clients, and an excellent record for winning and executing onshore lump sum projects.
Staff must also accession and process a steady stream of newly acquired materials and a substantial backlog of older materials, as well as prepare for and lead multiple visits to the archive each term by classes of students and groups such as university alumni.
We wake up at dawn to deal with the backlog of material.
A material decrease in a backlog of orders, for example, indicates deteriorating revenues and earnings, he said.
The original intention of moving the news next autumn was based on the need to build a backlog of material capable of sustaining the 9pm hour.
When he first started directing, he made two movies in a hurry because he had them stored up — he was backlogged with material, even after selling his scripts for "True Romance" and "Natural Born Killers".
The problem with this is that while spending on, for instance, new desks in a particular school could be delayed for a year with little adverse effect, over time the condition of classrooms and materials deteriorates as a backlog builds up.
But, as plans were completed, it was discovered that the licensed hazardous-waste facilities that are to be the final destination of the material are experiencing enormous backlogs in processing the waste that is sent each day, Alpern said.
But often a song is simply plucked from the writers' backlog of finished material.
Computer problems and the shortage of qualified linguists have worsened the backlog in translating material, the report found.
