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...sprouted at screening points at many major airports since the airlines were let back into the air on Sept. 13, government officials are considering rigorously imposing a new rule that is essentially one 'real' carry on and one 'personal' bag such as a women's purse. Officials want to lessen the burden on screeners and remove a potential threat of passengers carrying on weapons...
...also said that “it could be bad because if you have people who are coming just to make money and to hedge against an economic downturn it could lessen the intellectual curiosity of the place...
...Paso and Juarez recently teamed up--behind the backs of their federal governments--to increase the amount of treated wastewater that Juarez can channel to agriculture. That will eventually free up river water for colonias like Anapra--and lessen the chances of El Paso's drying up along with Juarez. And there's an $833 million, 20-year plan to tap new aquifers for both cities. Says Maria Elena Giner, of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission: "I don't think anyone has ever confronted the scope of what we're racing against...
...which can only lessen the remaining hostages' hopes of getting out unscathed. Zulkurnain Hashim, a 30-year-old wildlife ranger kidnapped last year from Sipadan Island, comments: "If there is a military attack, the Abu Sayyaf will not think twice to kill them." South African Monique Strydom wrote in her diary (recently published in Shooting the Moon) on June 19, 2000, day 58 of her abduction: "I hate them. I hate them a thousand times. I hate them for what they are doing to us ... to our families ... our parents ... for everything they have taken away from us. I hate...
...private firm that often pays its workers less? less attractive option. Outsourcing is traditionally a threat to unions because it results in a loss of union jobs. But if employers were required to pay a wage near the union wage anyway, Neumark says, the impetus to outsource would greatly lessen...