Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the dawn of new era in the CIA and with the self-conscious effort to leave the pathologies of Angleton behind, the CIA got lax with its own personnel...
...Education officials, both inside and outside the Government, are well aware of the problem. The Education Secretary, Richard S. Riley, recently called his department's management of its main scholarship program `worse than lax.' Robert Atwell, president of the American Council on Education, representing 1,600 colleges and universities, terms the fraud and abuse `an intolerable embarassment...
...definitely think they should have told us,"Marc R. Talusan '97 says. "The only thing my TFtold me is that they make sure that some TFsaren't lax and others aren't too strict...
...there are strengths in her work as well. For one thing, Wolf is an engaging raconteur. Once at Swarthmore College she found herself berated by members of a seminar on women's studies as too elitist (she used compound sentences); too lax as an academic (she used endnotes instead of footnotes); too much of a sellout (she published with a mainstream press). Later, over beer and pizza, the same students turned out to be friendly and vulnerable, voicing their late-adolescent doubts about sexuality and self-esteem...
With the Brady Bill soon to be law, the next major gun-control battle is likely to be over the rules for licensing gun dealers, which Schumer's bill would tighten. In August, President Clinton called for a review of these lax federal procedures, which currently provide a one-year dealer's license for a $10 fee -- going to $200 under the Brady Bill -- to anyone over 21 who has a fixed address and no criminal record. That entitles the holder to order an unlimited number of guns from wholesalers. Today there are more than 287,000 federally licensed dealers...