But Canadian and American customs agents and other law enforcement officials scrambled to alleviate the waits.
Both the airlines and the T.S.A. said that one way to alleviate the longer wait is to sign up for PreCheck, which allows eligible passengers to go through the speedier lanes without having to take off their shoes and belts or remove laptops and other electronic devices from their bags.
But while the longer hours helped, museum officials said, it didn't alleviate the two-hour wait.
Their baseball guy, Kasten, talked about already working with the folks from Levy to alleviate the horrendous concession waits — "I experienced the lines the other day when they made it difficult for me to walk the concourse, and that is not a good thing," he said.
PHILIP GOUREVITCH: Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow — so if you're a policy maker and you don't like any of your options today and you think you can look like you're doing something that's not reckless, that looks good-intentioned, that might alleviate the crisis, while you wait for unforeseen/unforeseeable shifts in the balance, well then that's your interest in buying time.
First, to alleviate the burden on those waiting the longest, Congress could pass H.R. 392.
NASA has developed software to alleviate the problem, but would prefer to wait so the crew can focus on the mission instead of the shuttle's systems, said NASA's associate administrator for space operations, Bill Gerstenmaier.
[ 6] We acknowledge that actions should be taken to alleviate the burden of patients by reducing wait times but with the growing needs for this surgery, allocation of more resource for surgery alone is unlikely to reach its goal.
A better response to these risks may ultimately persuade more people to become live donors and help alleviate the growing gap between donors and the waiting list.
Previous studies investigating anxiety related to the wait for PSA results in prostate cancer patients concluded that rapid results did not alleviate the anxiety related to receiving results, but patients did prefer it [ 38].
