Word: lax
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Last week's congressional hearings concentrated on what the U.S. could learn from foreign countries. Joji Arai, manager of the U.S. office of the Japan Productivity Center, cited 15 reasons for his country's productivity surge, including lax antitrust enforcement, large spending on R. and D., and joint management-worker programs to increase quality and eliminate production-line bottlenecks. Looking at the European experience, Eugene Merchant, director of research planning for Cincinnati Milacron Inc., emphasized the importance of the so-called trilateral relationship among Government, universities and companies. This is an idea that Europe adopted from...
...lobsters. In all too many cases, young females are removed before they have had a chance to reproduce; often they are taken under the typical state legal limit of 3 3/16 in. from eye socket to the beginning of the tail, a restraint that may still be too lax, according to scientists. The result: a dwindling lobster catch even in such once fertile waters as those off Maine...
...their armed forces are the best in the Middle East. That may be true, but a devastating new report by the State Comptroller on the army's performance during last year's invasion of southern Lebanon concluded that a number of Israeli lives were lost because of lax discipline, inadequate equipment and bad intelligence. Some roadblocks were unmanned, for example, leading Israeli troops to enter P.L.O.-held territory by mistake. As many as 21 tank were put out of commission because troops failed to follow orders. In less than a month, there were 182 cases of plunder...
...baseball and lacrosse teams named their captains for next year at close-out cookouts this weekend. The batsmen selected junior outfielders Charlie Santos-Buch and Mike Stenhouse, while the lax squad chose junior Peter Predun (a third-team All-American last year) and Dave Wigglesworth...
...expenses for such grassroots lobbying are not deductible under the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax code. Yet Rosenthal found "widespread misunderstanding of and noncompliance with the grassroots lobbying provision of our tax laws" as well as evidence of lax IRS enforcement. For example, one major insurance company ran an advertisement arguing for limited product liability laws, urging people to "Write a letter to your legislators. Be heard." Such action seems to be grassroots lobbying according to the IRS tax code which prohibits the deduction of expenses "in connection with any attempt to influence the general public...with respect to legislative...