Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stinking law, but I'm going to enforce it." His means are potent: if the feds determine from periodic speed checks that more than half of a state's drivers are ignoring the limit, U.S. highway funds can be reduced. In the case of Texas, for example, lax enforcement -about 70% of Texas drivers are speeders -should technically trigger an annual loss of $8 million...
...much vaunted factory? Following a local tip that he "go to the Black Hole, Dorofeyev found a 10-ft. breach in the factory's brick wall, through which workers peddled pilfered bars of the precious commodity for $7.50 a case. Security at the plant was so lax that Dorofeyev managed to parade right out the main gate, his pockets bulging with ill-gotten goods, without drawing more than an indifferent glance from the guards. The moral of the tale for Soviet shoppers: if you want clean hands, grease some palms...
...Women's lax at Cornell...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team, certainly no Gunther Gable-Williams on this season's college lax circuit, put the whips and stools to a confused but hard-shooting UNH squad yesterday, 12-7, at the Business School Field...
...Eliot House sophomore tickled the twine four more times before the lax-women posted a 14-1 score at half-time...