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...Denver had a program called Always Challenge Everybody, which urged all airport employees to question unauthorized people in secure areas and report suspicious activities-and offered gifts from airport concessionaires and vouchers for airline tickets as a reward. Since Sept. 11, the airport has also beefed up its background checks, for the first time screening all employees, not just newly hired ones. The airlines have also tightened their background checks of employees, and so have airport vendors and subcontractors. McDonald's lost a number of workers who turned out to be illegal aliens, depleting its staff so quickly, according...
...came from a background that was all white,” he said. “I had no idea about urban culture...
...break-dancing competitions, members of different teams come forward in a rotation to demonstrate their skills, as a background of hip hop music plays nonstop...
...onstage stands up, removes his jacket and walks forward. His legs positioned in a kendo stance, he whisks out a golden fan emblazoned with the red circle of the Japanese flag. He briskly waves the fan in deliberate downward strokes as a militaristic march plays in the background. The audience claps along, one solid clap every three seconds, while they sing in unison...
...players are stars on the European circuit, and some arrived at World Cup 2002 exhausted after long domestic seasons. Overall moments of brilliance, like the thrusting runs of Turkey's Hasan Sas and the second half of the final, were bright lights of World Cup 2002 against a bleak background of some stupefying games?like England's play-for-a-draw match against Nigeria in the oppressive humidity of Osaka's Nagai Stadium...