Word: bottlenecks
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...severe underestimation of the number of portable toilets needed—led many tailgaters, male and female, to choose Mother Nature over a 30-minute line for a Porta-Potty to answer the call. The single entrance to the tailgate also created a massive and frustrating bottleneck, which was no doubt to blame for raising tension levels between students and BPD. With two years to fix crowd control strategy, we hope 2006’s tailgate will run much more smoothly. Finally, the ticketing system for non-student attendees was poorly publicized and inefficient. Many non-student revelers arrived...
...make manpower changes. With European airports expected to see passenger traffic double by 2020, several, including one that's considering a pilot scheme, have expressed interest in the approximately $1 million system (IBM won't say which at this point). "Airports are [likely] to become the next major bottleneck," says Ronan Anderson of the Airports Council International Europe. "Anything that alleviates that is more than welcome." Agreed. Now can IBM do something about jet lag? More Fun With Accounting W hen it comes to interpreting the E.U.'s stability and growth pact, there are no limits to French and German...
...band bottleneck,” Rosensweig joked...
Facing an across-the-board drop in graduate admissions from abroad this spring, Summers fired off public letters to Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67, pressing them to address the bottleneck in student visas that was deterring applicants from coming to Harvard and other American schools...
Some of that cost is justified by employees' improved productivity on the road. "I'm no longer a bottleneck [when traveling]," Gillespie says. Mallick says he doesn't even set his out-of-office message anymore for short trips. For well-paid knowledge workers, the cost of wi-fi is even more readily absorbed by the extra time they willingly spend on work at home. Because wi-fi makes it so easy to jump on the corporate network from your living room, more employees are working longer hours. Mallick, for instance, says that since he got wi-fi installed...