Unfortunately, such ineffective security checks distract passengers from some real continuing security risks: the lack of flight marshals and secure cockpit doors, a dearth of well-paid security personnel, and the fact that not all checked baggage is X-rayed.
This implementation of the largest social pension program in the world offers a unique setting for studying the economics of intergenerational relationships during development, given the rapidity of China's population aging, traditions of filial piety and co-residence, decreasing number of children, and dearth of formal social security, at a relatively low income level.
In response to a Merrill Lynch analyst's question about the quality of Bear Stearns' marks on its portfolio – or the value the firm assigned to its assets, a nettlesome issue given the dearth of buyers for those securities – Mr. Winters said JPMorgan is "very comfortable" with those levels.
"It's just speculation," she said, "but I wonder if the criticism aimed at Obama over the dearth of women in senior national security positions influenced the timing of the Pentagon's announcement.
This has exposed the dearth of, and the need for, social security for women, a legacy of comparatively lower labor market participation, higher informality, and smaller salaries.
Institutional leaders have been greatly empowered by the dearth of good jobs, and in some cases, abetted by the logic and tools of security politics.
Compare the dearth to prevent death with the expenditures of over $1.5 trillion for militaries that commerce in the pursuit of security by threatening death.
I also shouldn't have to cite that there is a dearth of evidence to prove that these national security measures, like the SAR program, are effective in combatting terrorism.
Let's look at the alternative -- continuing to have a dearth of women in various positions in national security and government.
