Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington is relatively lax compared to other states. At least I can mail my ballot myself, anytime until election day. A friend from Memphis had to have her ballot signed by someone in the post office before she could mail it off. And on the one occasion that my roommate filed for an absentee ballot (a friend of the family was running for a local position) she discovered at the last minute that it actually had to be received by election day. This led to a complicated maneuver in which Jeanne's brother hand-delivered a Federal Express package...
...Blue Shield companies, which control more than 30% of the private health- insurance market. While the majority of the "Blues" are financially sound, others, like Empire, have been walloped by spiraling health costs and "cherry picking" -- the loss of the best customers to for-profit rivals. Gross mismanagement and lax oversight in many states have raised urgent questions: Can the Blues still carry out their mission as insurers of last resort? Are they too big and powerful to be regulated properly? Should the executives of these nonprofits enjoy the same perks as their brethren at FORTUNE 500 companies...
Dozens of tourist agencies cater to this clientele, which is made up of both pedophiles and pederasts taking advantage of lax law enforcement in Third World nations. Pederasts in particular have lots of help in finding a good time in Asia, Africa or Latin America. Numerous gray-market publications and computer networks provide information. One of the most notorious guides to world sex spas for homosexuals seeking boys is called the Spartacus International Gay Guide; available since the 1970s, it is now published in Germany in several languages...
...Lax grading allows instructors--of all ranks--to slide by without doing much of anything; it's easy to give a paper an A and write no comments. But a stricter policy would force all teachers to examine and criticize work more carefully. Giving high grades for mediocre work fosters contempt for the instructor, the field, the institution, and academia in general...
...have passed laws regulating the industry's water-quality and -labeling standards. Several, like Georgia, require companies to provide documented proof of their sources for water. Vermont requires bottlers to disclose any amounts of lead, arsenic and nitrate in their beverages. Spurred by criticism that its enforcement has been lax, the Food and Drug Administration this month began drafting tough new rules for the industry...