Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill is chafing the sometimes difficult relationship between the neighboring countries. Historically, the lax border enforcement has worked to the advantage of both. The U.S. has used Mexico as a backup labor source, and Mexico has counted on the annual flow of its natives as a "safety valve" for relieving the pressure of its high unemployment. Although the Mexican government of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado has avoided taking a public position, Mexican leaders complain bitterly in private that the U.S. is making a unilateral decision about a problem the countries share and is "criminalizing" the immigrants...
...Today, Zilbergeld and Psychologist Michael Evans charged that the phenomenal success rate claimed by sexology's first family is bogus. In the June issue of the sex magazine Forum, Zilbergeld repeats his critique. He also claims that Masters met him in a San Francisco bar and disclosed his lax standard for successfully treating lack of orgasm in females: one orgasm during the two-week intensive therapy treatment at the Masters & Johnson Institute in St. Louis and one more orgasm at any time during the next five years. To record such minimal performance as a success flabbergasted Zilbergeld...
...while the lax women's steady climb towards national prominence the past few years has been due to the combined efforts of some of the finest athletes ever to play the sport, no one has sparkled like DenHartog...
...Salvador for two years. His unusual blend of realism, toughness, charm and candor earned him wide respect among the Salvadorans, and he seemed to be carrying out Washington's policy with great skill. He irked the White House recently by publicly scolding the Salvadoran government on its lax prosecution of human rights abuses, but did so at Enders' urging...
...leadership that blacks have come to expect. His budget cuts were felt most immediately by the nation's poor, who are disproportionately black. He flirted with the idea of weakening the Voting Rights Act until a political fire storm changed his mind, and until recently was criticized for lax enforcement of fair housing laws. William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, has angered blacks with his apparent insensitivity to their concerns and his outspoken opposition to busing and affirmative action...