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Alexander told BBC Breakfast that BTP officers would increase visible patrols at mainline stations over the coming days "because I do understand that people will want to feel reassured following what happened".

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Alaska faced a similar outage just three months ago when a critical piece of hardware at a data center failed, bringing down its systems and forcing it to cancel about 10% of its mainline schedule.

In July, Alaska canceled dozens of flights, or about 10% of its mainline schedule, after a critical piece of hardware at a data center failed, bringing down airline systems.

Across the mainline rail network, harassment and common assault made up more than three quarters of the total assaults, and both of these categories saw an increase.

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We could argue the many, many inhumane points of Trumpist decrees if we were actually interested in discussing policy or, say, the mainline Christianity I once knew as a Presbyterian.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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