Word: lax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear-cut crimes?even though more than a dozen companies have confessed to engaging in such activities. But even outright bribery of foreign officials does not violate any U.S. law. It may break the laws of the countries where the bribes are passed, but some of those countries are lax in enforcing their own legal codes. Concealment of foreign payoffs on the books of a U.S. corporation violates the reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission; the penalties usually are no more than public disclosure of what payments have been made...
James Hargis. An ultra-right Fundamentalist, Hargis, 50, has long denounced sexual sin and spoken out as a defender of traditional virtues in an increasingly lax society. In 1968, his organization published the bestseller (250,000 copies) Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach...
...Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. Doctors there discovered the high Kepone level and notified Dr. Robert Jackson, the state epidemiologist and acting director of Virginia's bureau of preventive medical services. Jackson visited the Life Science plant, witnessed what he described as incredibly lax and sloppy conditions, and examined ten employees. Seven had symptoms similar to Gilbert's. Since then, doctors have examined 131 people who worked for Life Science at various times. More than half showed symptoms of Kepone poisoning, which include brain and liver damage, slurred speech, loss of memory...
Many defaults, of course, come about because, at a time of high unemployment, new graduates either cannot find jobs or earn too little to pay off their loans. Still, the default rate obviously indicates lax Government administration of FISL. John J. Walsh, an investigator for the subcommittee, reported to the Senators that he found files on student loans strewn all over some HEW regional offices. HEW officials told the Senators that they have not kept track of the total number of loans outstanding, much less the amount of insured loans at any one school, or whether any particular student borrower...
Nevertheless, in retrospect, the agents were guilty of "erroneous human judgment," as Montoya termed it. Moore's futile last-minute attempts in three telephone calls to reach the agents again on the morning of the shooting make the agency appear to have been lax. Yet Moore on each call apparently expressed no urgency. In one call at 8 a.m. she reached only an answering service, and on the other two calls she reached low-level clerks who were wholly unaware of who she was or what she wanted...