Word: lax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton almost accomplished this goal. Tiger halfback Snickenberger continued to run over the lax Crimson front line, and Princeton brought the ball all the way down to the Harvard one-yard-line in just seven plays. It was at this point that the game's momentum turned around...
Government regulators are now belatedly cracking down. The German government, which has been particularly lax in supervising its banks, has proposed a new set of regulations that could force the closing of any bank that loses an amount equal to 50% of its capital...
...easier "preponderance of the evidence" standard established for civil cases. It was applied by the House Judiciary Committee after, ironically enough, being proposed by Presidential Counsel James St. Clair. But Republicans, led by Minority Leader Scott, favored "beyond a reasonable doubt," feeling that "clear and convincing" was too lax...
...solid, superefficient city controller, a post he held off and on for eight years. Last week the city's new controller, Harrison J. Goldin, charged that under Beame's stewardship the controller's office had been inexcusably sloppy in its record keeping and decidedly lax in accounting for city funds. Announcing the results of two separate audits that he had ordered after assuming office, Goldin first alleged that $5.4 million in bonds supposedly locked up securely in the controller's vaults was missing and unaccounted for. Then he released figures compiled by a pool...
Turkey insists that it will closely supervise the crops. U.S. officials are less sanguine, for good reason. Turkey has been notoriously lax in controlling opium smuggling in the past, and its actions so far hardly indicate that it will change...