1.   But Argenbright Security, one of the largest contractors, will quickly be eliminated from the passenger screening checkpoints, they added.

2.   Lines were especially long at the passenger screening checkpoints at Logan Airport in Boston.

3.   Logan also had the most number of guns and fake bombs slipped past passenger screening checkpoints that are controlled by the airlines.

4.   The contract would call for moving the swipe technology from the closed employee entrances to passenger security checkpoints and some other places where employees have access.

5.   Those trace detectors, which are already used to screen carry-ons at many passenger checkpoints, would be put in the lobbies near the check-in counters.

6.   To show security guards what they now must confiscate, workers at the passenger checkpoints attached assorted knives to a plywood board.

7.   Castles said an employee told him he must go through the passenger security checkpoint.

8.   Company President Bill Barbour said Thursday that Argenbright handles passenger checkpoints, baggage and other services for American and United airlines at Dulles and Newark.

9.   Secured areas are those places beyond airport passenger checkpoints where employees can walk up to airplanes.