Word: lax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dispute that benefits should be paid to the families of miners who were disabled because the companies-and the Government-until recently were lax about dust-control standards in the mines. But Donald Davis, an official at national Social Security headquarters, charges that he has been pressured by superiors into approving benefits for "frauds." These range from twice-married widows collecting two separate benefit checks to "black-lung-disabled" healthy young men who worked in the mines only briefly. Prodded by Davis, the General Accounting Office issued a report citing abuses, though its criticism was milder than Davis...
...Cliffe can shake off the lax performances that hindered it in midseason, it could bring the national women's title back to Cambridge for another year...
...also summoned to Camp David. Though he had not been implicated in the Watergate scandal, many of his associates had been?so many that he had, properly, withdrawn from the investigation. Also, under his direction, the original Justice Department investigation and prosecution of the Watergate wiretappers had been lax and limited. No serious attempt had been made to find out who had ordered the wiretappers to break into and bug the Democratic National Headquarters last June, who had paid them, or who had approved the whole operation. Kleindienst offered his resignation voluntarily, but he was dismayed when Nixon insisted that...
...hatreds. The anticlerical freethinkers of the Enlightenment detested the Jesuits. So did Jansenist Catholics, who adhered to a puritanical view of man's depravity. Their most articulate spokesman was Blaise Pascal, who, in his eloquently satirical Provincial Letters, accused the Jesuits of abetting the decay of Christianity by their lax moral and ascetic teachings. Their papal loyalty, furthermore, infuriated believers in the new nationalism. A magnanimous missionary project in New Spain?the "Paraguay Reductions"?grew into self-sufficient Indian strongholds under Jesuit protection, angering European colonists who spread calumnies against the order. Finally, the Pope bowed to the mounting...
...have a case. Dick Wilson was duly elected by the Sioux, as was the 20-member council, which he heads. But AIM has accused Wilson-a mixed blood who was previously a plumber-of nepotism, political patronage and corruption in his administration. Reported TIME'S Woodbury: "Accounting is lax, and the considerable amount of money that passes through tribal hands, often for loosely defined programs, makes corruption almost a way of life in Indian government...