Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eliot search was the second of two house master searches conducted this year. In early November, popular professor Gregory P. Nagy announced that he would leave his Currier House post. A bit more lax than its Eliot House counter-part, the Currier search committee asked for student input at several house meetings. But it, too, tried to keep its actions under wraps. Representatives of both committees said they wanted to avoid embarrassing any candidates...
...Crimson had just finished its most successful season ever. Rising as high as third in the nation, Harvard finally commanded the respect of the lax world by advancing to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament...
...more troubling are indications that some doctors and hospitals may be lax in protecting patients against exposure to the AIDS virus. Chicago's Illinois Masonic Medical Center has temporarily closed its adult clinic following two alarming incidents. In April a physician taking a Pap smear from a woman unwittingly used a swab that had previously been used to take a culture from an HIV-positive patient. The doctor thought the testing kit, which had been left out unlabeled on a table in the hallway, had been prepared for his use. Just weeks later, two toddlers who had accompanied a woman...
...currently serve 2.5 million children. The real secret is how these schools have been able to do more for less. In the austere '90s, their cost-controlled quality and focus on fundamentals could serve as a model for public school systems seeking to conquer the problems of drugs, violence, lax standards and low morale...
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