Word: lax
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Salisbury social life was very lax. Lessing married the scion of a respectable family whom she did not love and produced two children. She walked out on that fledgling family to marry a Communist, Gottfried Lessing, with whom she had another child. Everyone drank, smoked and caroused. During her pregnancy by Lessing, she felt the need of an affair and nailed her man at once, a dedicated womanizer. By the end of the book she has moved to London with only the youngest child. (Though she saw Lessing when he too came to England, the relationship was over.) These facts...
...early going, Harvard (3-0-1 Ivy, 3-7-1 overall) allowed Boston College (4-5-2) to control play. Harvard's lax defense permitted Boston College to dominate in the Crimson end. That domination led to scoring opportunities--including an open shot from the inside the six-yard line five minutes into the game that miraculously went over Albers's head...
...Faculty Council initiative, voted in after pressure from Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell and Undergraduate Council members, may still be too lax...
...plutonium at 200 tons. The military weapons, including all those pits, are still under tight security -- as far as anyone knows. But other forms of plutonium are scattered all over the country in research institutes, laboratories, reprocessing plants, shipyards and power stations, where security is believed to be lax and accounting is unreliable...
Germany and the U.S. have put former Soviet countries' lax control over weapons-grade plutonium on the international front burner. In Germany, where police have now seized four caches of smuggled plutonium, Chancellor Helmut Kohl demanded guarantees from Russia that it would step up efforts to crack down on thefts from nuclear plants. He had the full backing of the U.S. Other German officials said they want Europe's fledgling police agency, Europol, and German spies to fight the smugglers. Russia, despite solid German evidence to the contrary, denied that even one grain of its plutonium is missing. But TIME...