Word: lax
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...CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The council is expected to revise the already lax rules that govern fasts and Friday abstinence from meat. The canon laws that govern the antiquated Index of Forbidden Books will be brought up to date; some bishops have asked that the Index be abolished. The council may recommend that greater attention be paid to science and modern teaching methods in seminaries. Canon law relating to impediments to marriage will probably be reformed-although the church is likely to make a strong reaffirmation of its stand against artificial birth control. Presumably, the council will take a stand against sins...
...although that world was narrow, it was not yet lax. Proper conduct was defined in terms of personal integrity and loyalty, qualities which have declined in this era of McCarthy purges and USIA propaganda techniques. Welles could defy powerful business interests and his own friends in the name of moral principle. The Good Neighbor was a creation of personal conscience, not of a cynical, pragmatic appraisal of the importance of allies in a world struggle...
...revelations of corruption. The Republican Alliance, a G.O.P. reform group, hired three professional investigators to uncover more scandals. In court last week, Dilworth argued tearfully that there was no need for a grand jury investigation. The municipal government, he pleaded, could clean up its own messes. "We were lax," he admitted privately. "We got so wrapped up in pushing our programs that we just assumed our civil service was fine." But in the welter of scandal that surrounded him, there was reason to wonder whether Dilworth could survive politically. As a reformer at the head of a sullied reform administration...
...Lusty & Lax. Part of the answer lies in the lusty, freewheeling nature of the American Exchange, which professionals still call "the Curb" in memory of its humble beginnings. Unlike the older...
Opponents of the measure on the City Council argue that rougher treatment of parking violators would scare potential spenders away from the community. Few shoppers, however, care to visit a clogged city, much less one whose officials call lax parking enforcement "inevitable" and let it continue...