Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, no one questions that American immigration policy has been notoriously lax. Although the U.S. welcomes 270,000 legal immigrants yearly, at the President's discretion a flood of Cuban and Haitian refugees swelled that number to more than 800,000 last year. An additional 500,000 to 1 million entered the U.S. illegally, most of them along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico...
...tricks. Set in Vienna where, in the absence of the Duke, the deputy Angelo is ruling with impeccable stridency, the play is loosely concerned with the fate of the libertine, Claudio, who must pay for an indiscretion with his head in order to serve notice that the law long lax under the Duke, now has new metal in it. As Claudio awaits execution in his jail cell, however, the real plot begins. Claudio's sister, Isabelle, pleads for mercy at the court, only to find herself propositioned by the ruling Angelo, who, hiding behind his reputation, offers Claudio's life...
Every week as many as 600 Haitians land in rickety craft on south Florida beaches. For more than two years, lax official attitudes and a tangle of litigation prevented the INS from rounding up the illegals and shipping them home. But a court in December freed the INS to throw out unauthorized Haitians, and the agency has just begun doing...
Photo has also done her share of crazy things: she has demonstrated that her entire fist can be inserted into her mouth. She once wanted to fit into a dress so much that she ate an entire box of Ex-Lax. And she lost $110 last year betting that the St. Louis Cardinals would end up in first place last year in the National League East (they finished fourth...
Mental lapses bring us to the third and final item on the list--attitude. If there had been any doubts beforehand, yesterday's 100 or so spectators can attest to the lax-women's enthusiasm. Cheers from the offense, defense and the bench met goals one through...