Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similarities between Harvard classrooms and African classrooms: I did a lot of studying on my own, but the program was not intellectual. School was conducted basically in bars. It was lax, let's just...
Even before he figures out how to deploy his spies, Carns will have to deal with the bureaucratic miasma of the agency. Morale is at rock bottom. Young case officers are privately demanding a housecleaning of top officials in the clandestine Directorate for Operations, whose lax management and protective culture allowed Aldrich Ames to get away with selling secrets to Moscow for nine years. Last December the CIA settled a lawsuit with former Jamaican station chief Janine Brookner for $410,000 plus lawyers' fees. Brookner claimed she was denied promotions after she disciplined subordinates for drinking, carousing...
...party has contended that single parent families are an acceptable alternative to two parent families. Her party has supported welfare, abortion and lax crime policies that tell people they don't have to take responsibility for their actions. Most of all her party has taken prayer away from students and has embraced anti-traditional values like homosexuality. Is it really any wonder that the Republican Party has the support of the American people on these issues? After all, only the Republican party has opposed them for the last several decades...
...These lax punishments enraged Congress and devastated morale in the agency. Young case officers had chafed under the CIA's authoritarian bureaucracy and had been privately demanding a housecleaning. Sept. 28, the date Woolsey announced his punishments in the case, was dubbed "Whitewash Wednesday" by the disgruntled spies. After the announcement, the operations directorate opened a secret hotline so case officers could vent their complaints. It was flooded with so many angry calls that embarrassed officials shut it down after 24 hours...
...suicide. Dale is accused of wrongfully pocketing at least $33,297. "Mr. Dale never spent a penny of government money or media money," his attorney, Steven C. Tabackman, said outside court. Dale claims that records taken from the travel office will prove his innocence. The Clinton Administration, complaining of lax management of the travel office, fired Dale and the other six employees...