Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America has been so lax about firearms that even the most basic facts about gun violence are hard to pin down, which leads to uncertainty in making effective policy. A major statistical source is the FBI's yearly Uniform Crime Report. Though it breaks down deaths into three categories -- by handguns, rifles and shotguns -- it says nothing about how many people are killed by imported guns or "Saturday-night specials," or how many died while resisting a stickup. To clarify the picture, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder is sponsoring a bill to establish a national firearm-fatality reporting system. Comparable...
Parking your car in Harvard Yard might not be such a bad idea, given Harvard's lax attitude toward collecting parking fines...
Enforcement of the rule requiring BAT presence has apparently been lax in the past few years...
...atmosphere is the real draw, however, as Naples is a major pick-up spot for high school and college students. This designation is facilitated by lax ID checking by some Naples employees. And even if you get bored here, you can always entertain yourself by carving your name or initial into the black lacquer tables and walls. (Don't worry, everyone does...
...years. The factories export the vast bulk of their output, basically duty-free, back to the U.S. Some 2,200 maquiladoras, most of them American-owned, employ more than 500,000 Mexican workers. Not only has the shifting of the facilities to Mexico cost some Americans their jobs, but lax environmental standards and poorly enforced regulations have turned large stretches of the 2,000-mile border into toxic cesspools. Maquiladoras are blamed for the noxious brown cloud that often overhangs El Paso, Juarez and other cities, as well as for the foul wastes that flow into the Rio Grande...