Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women's Lax at Yale...
...hotel rooms every day. "The houses don't give the journalists free gifts," purred an Italian p.r. man, "but they do give them discounts of between 10% and 100%." Publications like the New York Times and Washington Post bar their reporters from accepting discounts, but others are more lax. Recalled a British reporter: "I shared a hotel room with an Italian journalist once, and after a few days you could hardly get into the place for all the presents...
That pain might be less if Carter had acted earlier. If he had submitted a balanced budget in January, some of the worst shudders in the financial markets might have been avoided; they occurred largely because investors saw the original budget as lax and concluded that the Administration would do nothing effective to curb inflation. Even now, the President's plan is inadequate in many respects. Like his energy program, it flourishes a rhetoric of sacrifice and national duty but actually asks
...back. The special commission appointed by the President to investigate the accident called the NRC, in the words of Commission Chairman John Kemeny, "an agency hypnotized by equipment." This faith in technology, charged the investigators, was at least partially to blame for the lax safety procedures and lack of qualified personnel that they felt contributed to the Three Mile Island nightmare...
...executives. Referring to the Abscam scandal, Senator Robert Dole quips: "Maybe the Justice Department is so busy with members of Congress that it doesn't have time for Cabinet officers." But without a special prosecutor the nagging question will remain: As chairman of Textron, was G. William Miller lax or lying...