1.   The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.

2.   SECURITY lapses at Frankfurt airport that let an armed hijacker on to a Lufthansa airliner will be tracked down, the German government pledged yesterday.

3.   And they follow months of congressional criticism of the FBI for its handling of security lapses such as the Robert Hanssen spy case.

4.   Both women have become authorities, easily citing reports and studies and security lapses and quoting key government and airline executives.

5.   According to a state report, they took advantage of security lapses to overpower a group of prison workers and take their uniforms.

6.   Administration officials said they were troubled by the findings and had already undertaken to correct the security lapses.

7.   After preliminary findings of such security lapses last February, the EPA shut down its computer network temporarily for an overhaul.

8.   Airport security lapses have long been a target of government studies and news reports.

9.   Bush has said he will sign the bill, which ends weeks of congressional haggling over how to address the security lapses exposed by the devastating attacks.

10.   But since another security lapse has happened on his watch he is now tarnished and the Republicans will gnaw at this like a dog with a bone.