Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because our government was just as stingy with public information about Three Mile Island (TMI) as Moscow has been about its catastrophe. Because the U.S. government's attitude about reactor safety is just about as lax as we've been claiming Moscow's is. And because the same disaster could happen here...
...fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures and its concealment of the fact that the dangerous radiation was floating toward neighboring countries. Moreover, the accident seemed certain to put the worldwide use of nuclear power under still sharper attacks. In West Germany, the antinuclear Greens quickly staged protest rallies under banners bearing the slogan CHERNOBYL IS EVERYWHERE...
Throughout the United States, criminals are serving shorter sentences--not because the good in human nature is on the rise or because justice is getting lax in its standards, but simply because overcrowding has reached epidemic proportions in prisons...
...House's 292-130 vote in favor of the NRA complements the Senate's overwhelming vote in favor of lax gun laws last year. Neither the Senate nor the House would allow complete hearings, with the majority of both bodies accepting at face value the NRA's word that gun control had been debated enough already. Ironically, in defending its interpretation of the Second Amendment, the NRA is willing to subordinate legislative process. And, as the vote has shown, that's okay with Congress...
...Spokesman James Arey: "The terrorists out there use every nugget of information to help develop their master plan." Some insiders, however, are skeptical. An Alitalia pilot believes that terrorist attacks galvanize airport security police into only temporary vigilance. "That lasts about a week," he complains. Too often, the normal lax checking procedures creep back in soon afterward...