Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...checkups, gynecological care and, finally, to deliver their young. Last year more than 18,000 babies were born in this building, roughly 1 out of every 200 babies born in the U.S. "Sometimes they are lined up in the hallways and stacked up for C-sections like planes at LAX, six or seven deep," says obstetrician-gynecologist David Grimes...
...appointed by Mayor Tom Bradley and police chief Daryl F. Gates issued a 228-page report on the case. The commission, headed by Warren Christopher, Deputy Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, charged the nation's third largest police force with tolerating racism, excessive use of force, and lax discipline, and recommended sweeping changes...
...business, federal food watchdogs went off-duty. Since this was also an era of national obsession with health, the hottest-growing segments of the food market were "the light and leans, low fats, the healthy choice," says Grocery Manufacturers of America vice president Jeffrey Nedelman. In that atmosphere of lax regulation and lite mentality, health claims proliferated like sprouts on a salad...
...because the inspectors have been lax. They employ an impressive array of mechanisms to make sure that materials used to generate nuclear power or for other peaceful purposes are not diverted to bomb development. In 21 years, the inspectors, who lately have run more than 2,000 inspections a year, have never found even a single case of material diverted from peaceful...
...studio mixing boards or even bribing studio executives. Once the pirates have their booty, they pay legitimate CD manufacturers to produce discs from the master tapes, which are often labeled with a bogus name to escape detection. Most bootleg CDs are made in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe, where lax regulation and sketchy copyright laws make enforcement difficult. The illicit CDs are then smuggled into the U.S., where they are sold for prices ranging from...