Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talent-laden lax squad--seeing its first action since last weekend's 27-1 thrashing of Holy Cross--had trouble playing up to its potential yesterday. The Crimson's usually potent offensive attack could muster little challenge to the smaller UMass defense...
...quickly as the Crimson had dashed Penn's hopes of an outright Ivy League title. Princeton did the same to Harvard--sending the lax women back to Cambridge with a disappointing 0-2-1 spring trip record...
...home debut last Tuesday, Harvard blew an early 3-0 lead against B.C. The lax men may have been a little too anxious to rout the Eagles, angered after B.C. showed up an hour late and not yet in uniform...
...LONG AS the government continues its current deregulation bonanza, the incidence of cancer could continue to rise. The more lax attitude of the EPA underscores a more general insouciance towards carcinogens in our midst. For example, Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code allowes prospering companies--like the asbestos producer Manville Corporation--to use government funds to help pay the enormous liabilities incurred by worker suits. (Asbestos, an insulator, has been shown to cause lung cancer in humans...
...export restrictions prohibit the sale of sensitive equipment to the Warsaw Pact nations, but the Soviets have found willing channels abroad. West European businessmen will buy the desired hardware and export it to dummy European companies, which then reexport it to the Soviet Union. Austria and Switzerland, with relatively lax controls on imports, have become favored trading posts. Says an executive from one Silicon Valley company: "If every piece of equipment shipped to Vienna stayed there, the city would sink...