Word: flier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that the CIA doesn't understand the uses of technology. It's just that it understands its limits. Data mining works well if Osama bin Laden decides to renew his Visa card or cash in his frequent flier miles. But bin Laden, like most terrorists, has dropped off the digital grid. To find him you need a warm body, not just cool gear...
...than just checking a list of passenger names for those who might be suspected of terrorist activities, it applies a "risk assessment" to every airline passenger entering the U.S. by using more than two dozen criteria, including how the airline ticket was bought, contact phone numbers provided, and frequent flier information. ATS even wants to know your seat preference. The ATS data is fed to the National Targeting Center, a multi-agency center that crunches the data against criminal databases and watch lists. If your data raises too many concerns, or some questions can't be answered, you'll receive...
...after a recruitment flier—"STOP BEING A PUSSY," it urged—offended students. The latest in the Spec's blanket coverage is a salvo from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which asked that the team be reinstated. A Spec editorial calls the flier "tasteless" but the punishment "excessive." A columnist also comes to the team's defense. Surprisingly, nobody calls the athletic department pussies...
...avoided, its environmental impact needn't be a write-off. Consider seating arrangements. "The more people on a plane, the better," says Gehan Talwatte, managing director of London-based aviation consultancy Ascend. Legroom may be compromised during budget or charter flights, but squeezing more seats on board reduces each flier's share of an aircraft's fuel load and greenhouse-gas emissions. While a charter and a scheduled flight each burns around a ton of fuel traveling between London and Malaga, Spain, for example, charter planes can pack in around 16% more seats, lowering the fuel used per passenger...
...flying down from New York to join us. His flight had been delayed. No matter, says Casta?o: "There's a pasture on the other side of the hill, he can land there in a small plane." We called Ramo in Cartagena. Ramo was an expert pilot, a stunt flier and he enthusiastically agreed to meet us in a cow pasture at 7 a.m. We spent the night in a lodge half an hour's walk down the coast...