Word: lax
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...Britain, are sheltering incognito at many of the world's major airports, says Sandie Cox of Heathrow Travel Care, the organization overseeing the one-year pilot scheme. Chicago's O'Hare instituted a homeless outreach in the 1990s. Several others, including Newark-Liberty in New Jersey and Los Angeles' LAX, have done the same. Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe, has more delays than most major hubs; the catalog of errors accompanying the March 27 opening of the $8.5 billion Terminal 5--including some 250 canceled flights and 28,000 pieces of misplaced baggage--has provided even more effective camouflage...
...become ill. They are beneficiaries of the democratization of flight: gone are the days when you could identify British air travelers by their neat suits and shiny shoes. Two scruffy passengers we discovered curled in the corner of a remote bathroom turned out to be holding tickets to LAX. They had chosen their spot because it was the only place they could find that had an outlet to charge their handheld video-game console...
...What Harvard needs is not a lax drinking policy, but a renewed commitment to breaking the rules. Administrators, tutors, and the like have gone soft in recent years, and frankly so have we. Drinking before one’s 21st birthday, long a secret indulgence, has been stripped of its thrill as liquor has flowed freely across the College...
...successfully and reduce drop-out rates. With a shortage of bilingual teachers in the area, it is necessary to look farther afield. In this case, Puerto Rico is an ideal location for searching out candidates, both because it is a semi-autonomous territory of the United States with relatively lax immigration laws, and because Boston has a large Puerto Rican community that would benefit from Puerto Rican teachers. Boston recruiters hope to hire over 40 new bilingual teachers in the next five years. Although they are eager for applicants, the decision process is far from indiscriminate: Teachers must have past...
...seen the effects of the democratization of air travel: gone are the days when you could identify a British air passenger by their suit and shiny shoes. Indeed, on Wednesday, the two scruffy passengers curled in the corner of a remote bathroom turned out to be holding tickets to LAX; they had chosen their spot because it was the only place they could find an outlet to charge their hand-held video game console...