Word: haring
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...Rough sleepers," as homeless people are known in Britain, disguise themselves at all major airports, says Sandie Cox of Heathrow Travel Care, the social care organization overseeing the one-year pilot scheme. Indeed, Chicago's O'Hare airport instituted a homeless outreach in the 1990s. But while the problem may not be unique to Heathrow, several factors make it easier for rough sleepers to blend in. It is the busiest airport in Europe, has more delays than other major hubs, and while it doesn't serve Europe's low-cost carriers, it has still seen the effects of the democratization...
...students rather than by how schools with disparate local funds stack-up against each other. Currently, all schools are expected to have a certain percentage of students meet a predetermined level of math and reading proficiency each year. This is a bit like asking the tortoise to beat the hare. It’s possible, but highly unlikely outside the fairy-tale world of stump-rhetoric. Rather than asking low-income schools to catch-up to institutions soaked in high property taxes, the program should dish out rewards and sanctions based on individual school improvement...
...White House recently announced its plan to make commercial air travel more tolerable over the holidays. It will open unused military airspace in an effort to decrease delays and ensure that Santa isn't stuck circling O'Hare come Christmas Eve, in what President George W. Bush called travelers' "season of dread...
...States, is simply a cut above other forms of transportation.While planes uncomfortably crowd people against one another, forcing them to retreat into themselves, trains allow for a certain sense of Olympian detachment combined with carefree interaction.So as my friends sit on the tarmac at Logan or O’Hare on the way home to winter break, I’ll be ensconced comfortably—and, most likely, grinning like a fool—aboard my train. They will likely get to their destinations before I do, but I’ll be more than content...
Instant-runoff voting—which has its origins in a system developed in the 1850s by Thomas Hare of England and Carl Andrae of Denmark—is advantageous because voters are free to choose more marginal candidates who may not have the strongest chance at winning. Under a standard plurality voting system, voters are often pressured to choose mainstream candidates for fear that their votes would be wasted on less viable candidates...