Word: lax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prepared. The trustee committee traced much of the blame for the campus troubles to lax discipline for several years before the crisis occurred. Said the trustees: "Cornell has not only consistently failed to employ disciplinary procedures available to it, but by refusing to employ such procedures has threatened materially the usefulness of these procedures for the future." The committee also blamed poor communication within the university, especially about the program to admit underqualified blacks, for fostering "misunder standing and resentment" that eventually produced last spring's near-calamitous insurrection...
...what banks fail in Texas, as long as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects us? That would be a fitting refrain these days in the Lone Star State, where five small, state-chartered banks have collapsed since April.* Their fatal maladies were, variously, loose lending policies, lax management, land speculation, declining rural communities and, in one instance, alleged embezzlement. Perhaps it only reflects the new permissive attitude of the times, but Texas depositors have taken the closings with carefree jollity. Says Robbie Ferguson Jr., cashier and vice president of the failed Big Lake State Bank: "At first...
Were the Authorities Lax? Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena, a well-meaning former state trooper who had escaped to the island to avoid the tensions of the mainland, was on a diet of tranquilizers last week. In his own words, he had never investigated anything more serious than complaints of "snapping turtles or snakes in people's yards." Though Kennedy spent some time in Arena's office the morning after the accident preparing his initial statement, Arena never thought to question him. Nor were the other participants in the party interrogated. "After all," Arena told reporters, "when you have...
...signs of changing morality are clearest when it comes to sex. By no means do a majority endorse a sexual revolution: 76% want pornography outlawed, and 72% believe that erotica robs sexual relations of beauty. Overwhelmingly, 66% to 5%, Americans think that sexual morality is more lax than ever, and they again pinpoint the news media as the principal reason. On the other hand, 16% think that Americans are not really more promiscuous but just talk a lot more about sex. Says Naomi Brock, a South Gate, Calif, housewife: "I suppose it's always been about the same...
...fringe benefits, tend to take less pride in their jobs than their elders. American Motors had to recall 750 cars over the past year because workers carelessly installed the wrong alternators, which did not generate enough current to keep the batteries fully charged under heavy loads. To overcome lax workmanship on the production line, G.M.'s Buick Division not long ago outfitted torque wrenches with horns that sound off whenever workers fail to fasten nuts and bolts tightly enough. Quality control is becoming an increasingly big headache on Mondays and Fridays, when high absenteeism forces management to rely heavily...