Word: lax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mawkish, but the point is simply that institutional negligence (under which I would classify the callous transgressions of promoters like Lang or Melvin Belli) does not make good copy or flashy movies. When thirty-eight miners suffocate in a mineshaft which doesn't even meet the government's lax specifications, that "tragedy" is accorded the treatment the press gives to earthquakes and other natural disasters, but New York filmmakers aren't about to fly down to Kentucky or wherever and compose a film around it. Instead it's the front page one day, then the last bodies...
Vittert seems determined to avoid the transgressions that brought failure last year to Cortes Randell's National Student Marketing Corp., a firm that offered much the same services as College Marketing (TIME, April 13). A prime source of Randell's trouble was lax supervision of his representatives. College Marketing requires its representatives to submit the addresses and telephone numbers of all people they deal with; some of these are spot-checked by phone from Indianapolis...
...Cardinal Villot's lax concern about the population explosion [Feb. 1] is the reflection of the most serious shortcoming of the Judeo-Christian belief, namely that it is legitimate for humans to ruthlessly exploit the animal and plant kingdoms presumably to increase the glory of the Lord. What makes Cardinal Villot and his followers think that a cheetah or a dolphin or a sequoia is less of a glory of God than the products of overpopulation: wars, crimes, drug addiction? Of what avail is freedom if there is no clear water, clean air, forests and no wildlife? Where then...
This year's JV team has more games and more players than ever before. Consequently, many players have forsaken the rigorous JV schedule for more lax intramural competition...
...take over such policing on 120 days' notice if states fail to follow through. As an alternative, the EPA may sue polluters directly. In a remarkable expansion of the power of ordinary Americans to combat bureaucratic diffidence, the law also authorizes citizen suits against alleged violators or, for lax enforcement, against the EPA itself. Violators are subject to fines of $25,000 a day or two years in jail...