Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost unnoticed, however, the deficiencies began to tell when Milosevic, looking for a negotiated solution, withheld his political and material support from the Bosnian Serbs. Military stalemate, debilitating for any army, took a toll as well: in recent months reports of war weariness, low morale and lax discipline cropped up with increasing frequency. Inept officers were drinking when they should have been training their troops, a Serb militia leader told a New York Times reporter last week; the soldiers, he said, were "too stupid to stop an attack by Boy Scouts." Stupid or shrewd, many also saw little point...
Perhaps. But Colombia's sentencing practices are notoriously lax. During the crackdown, the U.S. has offered Colombia only grudging praise, dwelling instead on the subject of punishment. "We look forward," says a State Department official, "to a prison sentence commensurate with the crimes Santacruz has committed, and complete forfeiture of his assets...
True enough, the academics were less than rigorous at the American College, and I found myself becoming incredibly lax. I prepared for tutorials by sharpening my pencil, and I studied for exams the morning before, all of which made the transition to Harvard bumpy at first, But good Study habits are retrievable, I found, even if they are shocked into reuse. It was more the social scene that seemed like a cold shower: my new classmates didn't seem to have time simply tohang...
...largely to its ownership stake in Interscope, a small label that releases Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg. (Earlier this year, Time Warner increased its ownership in Interscope from 25% to 50%.) The standards of taste at Warner Music labels, moreover, have at times seemed extraordinarily lax. Several years ago, Geffen Records (then affiliated with Warner Records) rejected a Geto Boys album because of its explicit lyrics about mutilating women and having sex with dead bodies. The album was immediately distributed by another Warner label...
Enforcement of tutorial regulations appears tobe relatively lax. The only evaluation ofsophomore advisers comes at the end of the year,when students do not expect to have future contactwith them...