Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clifford said any restrictions on smoking in restaurants and bars should take place at the state or federal level, so that Cambridge businesses would not have to compete with towns with lax anti-smoking laws...
...larger lesson is that medical-school departments should not be allowed to operate as independent fiefdoms with little external oversight. At the University of Minnesota, at least, the lax administrative system that let Najarian get in such serious trouble is belatedly undergoing a radical overhaul-in hopes that none of the school's other stars will fall so far so fast...
Local bars with lax carding policies, someliquor stores and of-age seniors provide underagedrinkers a means to bypass Universityrestrictions, students...
Clifford has spearheaded a petition effort against the ordinance, saying it would cause diners to eat in nearby Boston and Brookline, which have more lax restrictions...
Even before Kevin Mitnick got his hands on these burglar's tools, says William Cheswick, a network-security specialist at AT&T Bell Labs, the average computer on the Internet was singularly vulnerable to attack. Security at most sites, says Cheswick, is so lax that passwords and other protective devices are almost a waste of time. "The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back," says Cheswick. "I don't need jackhammers and atom bombs to get in when I can walk in through the door...