However, once again, if the director and writer had updated the motif to something more contemporary and less (unitentionally no doubt) ironic, the philosophical baggage might not weigh things down too much.
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The train window was so dank with mist anyway that it was hard to see anything at all except the reflection of my own dark figure hunched down under the baggage rack in my black tweed coat and hat.
Since then, the airline has taken serious measures to improve its efficiency, including rebuilding its luggage system at its Atlanta hub to cut down on lost baggage, and analysing historical cancellation data to adjust the availability of spare aircraft in different hubs in order to keep flights moving.
It has even played down an incident last month in which diplomatic baggage and supplies were seized by Venezuela's national guard.
Just getting all the parts to work together seems overwhelming indeed, it did overwhelm British Airways last month at Heathrow, outside London, when Terminal 5, an eight-billion-dollar structure that was supposed to transform Heathrow from a congested tangle into a place that would thrill passengers with the joy of air travel, all but shut down on its opening day, when a computerized baggage system malfunctioned.
Worries that investors may balk at a company with such baggage has forced underwriters Goldman Sachs Asia and China International Capital Corp. to scale down the size of the offering and cut the stock's asking price.
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"There're no ticket counters, no terminals and no baggage handlers, " says Crandall, 68, who still chain-smokes his cigarettes down to the filter.
Smarter deployment policies may be needed down the road to scale better technologies, but they would come with less baggage than the blunt deployment policies used today.
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The authors argue that when young adults invest in themselves and their careers before taking on the baggage of marriage, children and a job to pay the bills, they are equipped to make better choices down the road, for themselves and as citizens.
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