But for those who fly and those who read the voluminous press coverage of the industry, Mr. McGee's discussion is all too familiar the lost bags and long delays and the endless search for cost savings that has extracted every "olive" from the flying experience.
For a few years, a company called Nordic Water Supply from Oslo, Norway, transported water in bags 200 meters long from Turkey to the northern coast of Cyprus.
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If Barack Obama insists it's about something else, everyone, including him, will have their bags packed for a long 40 months.
While there has been some talk about using these bags on a regular basis for long-distance bulk water deliveries, they seem to have a clear role to play in emergencies.
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She's Brazilian, and she likes to create long, hanging rows of plastic bags in loops, sometimes in Yves Klein blue.
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Later, at an Advanced Style party at the Ace Hotel, I met Lily, who in her long flowing skirts and collection of bags, bangles and scarves seems peacefully content with how she presents herself to the world.
Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.
Never store your clothes over long periods in plastic dry-cleaning bags which emit gases that can stain or yellow fabrics as well as break down the elasticity in stretch garments.
The up-to-30, 000 spectators expected at the finish line of the New Jersey Marathon, in the City of Long Branch, will have to leave bags behind as they pass through police checkpoints along fenced-in paths, said Jason Roebuck, the city's director of public safety.
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"He had his bags packed for 12 weeks, just waiting, " long snapper Zak DeOssie said.
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Diana Wallis - the Liberal Democrat MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber - has long argued for a levy on plastic carrier bags.
In the mornings, the multiple lines are long as people get their passes checked and check in any bags.
But the lines are long and the patrons are leaving with large, clear plastic bags jammed with goods bearing the Masters logo.
Having fewer airlines will exacerbate the already lousy service that makes so many people hate to fly these days--the long waits, the delays, the cancelations, the lost bags.
Laurier also pointed out that cornstarch bags, far from being a worthy alternative to regular polyethylene, could in the long run be more harmful to the environment.
The environment minister admits that it will be impossible to completely end the use of plastic bags but she believes the measure to stop traders from importing and selling them will go a long way to protecting the environment.
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