Word: ragingly
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...taller than your father. In fact, I'm taller than most people's fathers--94.1 percent of all men to be exact. This creates difficulties in the dating department, where tall men like to date unnecessarily short women and short men seem to be all the rage this decade. After subtracting for irreconcilable personality differences and bad hairdos, I'm left with two Harvard men who meet the necessary height and intellect requirements; one is currently seeing another woman, and the other is taking a semester abroad...
...number of incidents spirals, regulatory bodies and airline crews' unions have swung into action, seeking consensus on how to deal with the issue. Definitions of air rage vary from country to country - which leads to discrepancies in how cases are reported - and complex laws can make it hard for airlines and police to prosecute offenders. Not that airlines are necessarily abreast of the problem: in a recent survey by London Guildhall University, more than a third of the 200 or so airlines questioned said staff were not trained to deal with air rage. The International Transport Workers' Federation, which represents...
...relaxed, soothing realm of smiling passengers and subservient flight attendants, may themselves be partially to blame for raising travelers' expectations. It's a claim airlines flatly dismiss. "Ludicrous," says Ben Hall, a spokesman for Virgin Atlantic Airways. "We have to look at how many cases of air rage are linked to people over-indulging in alcohol. And how many are people with underlying psychological illnesses. They are more contributing factors than anything to do with advertising...
...cramped conditions and long flights can make you uncomfortable. But are they enough to make you crazy? According to the results of a questionnaire sent out by the International Air Transport Association, incidents of air rage - that much-discussed propensity of a few passengers to go bonkers in the sky - increased by almost 500% in the last half of the 1990s. In the past two years, at least three people have died as a result of violent actions by enraged fellow travelers...
...like Rage Against the Machine. Instead, imagine the sounds of ska-scene leaders...