Word: ramps
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...Citizen Corps that responds most directly to post-9/11 anxieties and needs. Citizen Corps is geared toward homeland security, allowing volunteers to help police departments, establish emergency medical procedures and ramp up neighborhood watch programs...
...only on originating flights, not on the second or third leg of a continuing flight. The airline industry has resisted adopting the policy widely, saying it would worsen delays. But proponents point to the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988: it was placed by a ramp worker in Malta and on two connecting flights was never matched to a passenger. Congressman Jim Oberstar called the bag-match loophole "the Achilles' heel in the security system." A rule scheduled to take effect in December would require screening of all bags. But fewer than...
...semi-discernible trend that puts the economy - you guessed it - somewhere near a bottom but not exactly turned around just yet. Oil and gas prices remain helpfully low for consumers, and consumers themselves don't seem to be too badly off. But it seems few businesses are willing to ramp up production just yet - until they see demand waiting for them around the corner, they're not going to do much. And they don't appear...
...could probably be argued that we?ve been on alert since September 11th, so I?m not really sure this warning has changed anything. All of our emergency response teams were already on highest alert before the warning, and I don?t think there?s any way to ramp up from there...
Then think about what Boston is doing with the Big Dig. Virtually alone among major cities in the U.S., Boston has realized the futility of incremental improvements to its transportation infrastructure. Instead of adding a lane here and a new on-ramp there, Boston is completely scrapping and rebuilding its infrastructure, putting vast new roads underground and building new bridges and tunnels as well. The community paid for the multibillion dollar project using public funds from the state, local and federal levels and had to overcome a lot of not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) opposition to get it done...