Word: inspectionism
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The FAA did try to get airports to do a better job at screening. In January 1996 it warned airline and airport managers at major airports across the country that there were serious problems not only with airline screening processes but also with the airports' security procedures. For example, O...
Another report that my office was preparing on FAA inspections was also killed. It was critical of the FAA because the agency had not made improvements in the terrible inspection system we had previously uncovered. Even though an assistant inspector general had already testified to Congress about this report, it...
Others, both privately and publicly, were not so upbeat. "The inspection regime was always going to be the toughest nut to crack, and now we just have to have at it," says one former diplomat with long experience dealing with the North. "If they get this done within 45 days...
On inspection, the liberal and conservative brands of patriotism both have defects. In a country where today's nativists are yesterday's immigrants and where change is practically a national religion, conservative patriotism can seem anachronistic. To be Spanish or Russian or Japanese is to imagine that you share a...
Meanwhile, on late Sunday, Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency. National Guard troops were dispatched to severely flooded areas. More than 100 roads, many with significant structural damage, were closed. Doyle swiftly ordered the inspection of his state's roughly 3,500 dams. So far, 13 dams...