Word: unevennesses
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...patted down, and the government has recently ordered that all checked incoming international baggage be X-rayed, even if the passengers are catching a connecting domestic flight. In most Arab countries, passengers run a gauntlet of 14 checkpoints before boarding. Ironically, at Hellenikon airport in Athens--notorious for uneven security and a target of U.S. investigators--passengers, including those who boarded the doomed TWA 747 bound for J.F.K. last week, are screened several times before they board: by Greek airport officials and by airline officials at the gate...
...film critic Richard Schickel that the movie was so-so at best, I'd like to suggest that he see the film again, as he missed the deeper message. Whether or not it was their intention, the screenwriters have loaded the movie with psychosociological metaphors, turning it from an uneven, sometimes exciting, sometimes very so-so spy thriller into a study of current trends in corporate America and the escalating employment and economic struggle between Generation X and baby boomers...
Although some say that Harvard offers equality by ignoring women's issues, many female students say they still feel they are competing on uneven ground...
Even if this particular tragedy can be characterized as human error, however, the crash has laid bare ValuJet's uneven safety record. Since its start-up in October 1993, the airline has had more than 284 "service difficulties," according to the FAA, such as a plane rolling off the runway because of worn brakes. In the first five weeks of 1996, the carrier experienced four "incidents," as the FAA terms them: a hard landing and tail strike, a nose wheel that strayed off the runway when the crew could not see taxi lights, an aircraft that skidded...
Student members of the committee cited the uneven gender distribution in housing assignments this year as an example of how the current system of assigning houses might fail to achieve its stated goal of diversity in the houses...