Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large part, this crisis of truly unknown danger is the long-term result of the lax requirements of the little-known Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the law which governs the registration and use of pesticides. Dating from the 1940s, FIFRA has allowed many chemicals to be widely used despite a lack of information about their health effects. In recent years, its provisions have been strengthened, and pesticides introduced now do have to undergo thorough testing. A process of re-registration, carrying out and verifying new tests for chemicals approved under old standards, was also loosely mandated...
...highly critical reports added fuel to the intensifying national debate on the Marine deployment. Both spoke of the lax security around the Marine compound at the Beirut airport before it was blown up by a suicidal truck driver on Oct. 23, killing 241 U.S. servicemen (see following story). Republican Congressman Larry Hopkins, one of the authors of a report by a House subcommittee, went beyond the security question to criticize the "peacekeeping" role of the Marines. Said he: "The people in the Mideast have been fighting since the days of Abraham. Asking our Marines to stop the fighting there...
...managerial positions across the board. If there are minority applicants, however entrenched they seem in other positions, they must still be actively recruited, whether the chance of success is high or not. Relatively few minorities and women occupy important positions in this university and, if Harvard appears to be lax in its recruiting efforts, an already limited sense of community will be even more seriously undermined. Such laxity will also prey on the recruitment of minority students, already slowing in recent years...
...Heathrow robbery was no less polished. Somehow the thieves evaded all the warehouse's closed-circuit TV cameras. As one of the largest gold transporters in Britain, Brinks-mat was hardly lax about security. "The whole place was alarmed," said a worker at a nearby warehouse. "As soon as one of the vans would arrive, the doors would close behind it." Having penetrated the 150-foot-long warehouse, the crooks headed straight for the room in which the gold was stored. As a Scotland Yard official told TIME: "The gang must have had 'inside information' from someone...
Indeed, until last week, security at the Capitol was almost alarmingly lax. Police officers at various entrances checked only packages, briefcases and handbags, thus making it easy for a would-be saboteur to conceal weapons or bombs inside clothing. The gallery-entrance metal detectors, moreover, were far more primitive than those routinely found at airports, and incapable of picking up plastics or other nonmetal weapons or explosives...