This leads us to believe that we're not experiencing a real crisis of innovation but rather an enormous backlog of (patent) applications being processed.

The patent office is overwhelmed because they don't have enough staff.

This happens to us over and over again. We get things at the last minute. This is really frustrating.

This deal would trigger the airline consolidation we have feared in the wake of a proposed United-US Airways merger. It would be a travesty for the new administration to let this go forward.

We finally got everyone in. It's the first step for us.

The closing of Good Hope's emergency room and its inpatient psychiatric unit presented us with a real crisis.