1.   Airport authorities are moving fast to improve security following a series of bomb threats.

2.   The airport authorities nearby had heard nothing, or were telling nothing.

3.   America West originally informed airport authorities it would try to accomplish its full schedule, a Sky Harbor official said.

4.   At other airports, the companies negotiate individual leases with airport authorities that run for various lengths of time.

5.   At some airports, the same people might do the screening, as employees of the local airport authority rather than the federal government.

6.   Austin-Bergstrom spokeswoman Jackie Mayo agreed that soldier patrols will likely help coax people to return to air travel and said that airport authorities welcome their assistance.

7.   After an additional two years, airport authorities will be able to switch to private security companies.

8.   Airport authorities and airlines alike have an economic stake in making airports as appealing as possible to these road warriors.

9.   Bribes to unpaid airport authorities clear up the paperwork.

10.   But he did agree to tell how he persuaded the airport authorities that there were limits to what he would pay.