Word: lax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prefaced his remarks with an anecdote about what it takes to be an authority on such a subject, relating that--at one point--the U.N. feared it was being too lax about the qualifications of its African experts. As a result, a directive was issued which established that "you can't be an expert on an African country any longer if you've only flown over it by night...
...impact, aerospace profits remain low: 3.1% of sales against 5.5% for all U.S. manufacturers. One reason: in a little-noted change of vast consequence, cost-conscious Robert McNamara has switched Pentagon buying away from lax, cost-plus contracts toward fixed-price, incentive awards. Increasingly, defense contractors must sharpen both their engineering and their bids to win business. Efficient operators who trim costs or beat delivery schedules are rewarded with higher profits; fumblers are being winnowed out. Says Northrop Chairman Tom Jones: "It's a sporty course...
...study said, that the night shift, which had a 40% heavier work load than the day shift, actually had 17% fewer men. The force is so slothful that an aggrieved Baltimorean cannot even be sure that his complaint will be recorded, much less acted on. Investigation is so lax that at least four times in the past year police have attributed deaths to natural causes, despite knife and gunshot wounds on the victims' bodies. Recruitment standards are so low that almost anyone with an eighth-grade education can make patrolman. Civil liberties have been widely ignored by investigators...
...Launched in 1927, she has flown U.S., Liberian and Panamanian flags, was registered in Panama when she went down. Thus, though long past the retirement age for U.S. passenger ships, generally kept in service no more than 20 years, she was required under international law to meet only the lax safety standards in force when she was built. Twice last year she broke down before sailing, leaving hundreds of passengers on the pier. On each of the four trips she completed, according to former Operator John E. Smith Jr., she was more than 15 hours late, ran out of water...
...More Respected School. Litchfield's defenders argue that he is being made a scapegoat for lax fiscal supervision by Pitt trustees. A dynamic chancellor is too busy churning out ideas, they say, to audit the cash flow. They also argue that in upgrading Pitt, Litchfield chose a costly course: increased emphasis on graduate teaching and research, which require expensive facilities and slight the revenue-producing undergraduate enrollment...