Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corriere said that security is extremely lax in the student dorms. "They prop doors open with pizza boxes and cover locks with cotton and tape so they don't have to worry about getting locked out," Corriere said...
...money sports simply do not deserve the numerous trainers, expensive equipment, lax admission standards, and other perquisites which they currently enjoy. To be sure, Harvard can and does pride itself on a sports operation considerably cleaner than most universities. But this is having one's cake and eating it too: Harvard tries to claim saintliness and to sin a little at the same time...
...Motion Picture Association and no mean practitioner of the craft, "is the biggest growth industry around." The number of registered domestic lobbyists has more than doubled since 1976, from 3,420 to 8,800. That figure is understated, however, since reporting requirements under a toothless 1946 law are notoriously lax. Most experts put the influence-peddling population at about 20,000, or more than 30 for every member of Congress. Registered lobbyists reported expenditures of $50 million last year, twice as much as a decade ago, but the true figure is estimated at upwards of $1.5 billion, including campaign contributions...
Even the authoritative and generally pro-NASA trade journal Aviation Week & Space Technology was critical. While praising the "dedication, high level of effort and in many cases personal sacrifice" of NASA personnel, it charged that "undercurrents reveal a hidebound space agency fraught with lax management oversight, intramural turf battles between headquarters and key field centers and a tendency toward compartmentalized bureaucratic thinking that, in the aftermath of the accident, has generated self-serving responses...
...preaching middle class values while denying many Americans middle class options simply dodges the problem. As Smeal pointed out, it takes a certain audacity for an all male "Face the Nation" panel and a CBS docu-drama to question the morals of young Blacks. Those who now preach about lax sexual mores are the same ones who not so long ago closed their eyes and ears to the problem...