Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Loosen bank regulation a little. Examiners, too lax before, should not become too zealous now. And capital requirements do need raising, but not "consequences be damned...
...people who attended the meeting viewed a film produced by the UFW called "Wrath of Grapes" that depicted children who had developed cancer as a result of pesticide use. The film criticized grape producers and blamed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its lax standards...
Conventional government intervention has largely failed, notably in the chaotic and counterproductive welfare system, which is at once too lax and too rigid. We have been more successful than is often realized in ending or alleviating certain kinds of poverty. The underclass, with its devastated family life, its single mothers and routine teenage pregnancies (among black teenagers, nearly 90% of babies are born out of wedlock), is a nightmare reproach to America. But it is also a relatively isolated phenomenon -- far more so than the poverty that festered behind the proud facades of Victorian England, for example. It requires separate...
Campus crime statistics will hold universities accountable for the safety of their students. Safe schools would attract more students and those notoriously lax on security measures would have to shape up to compete...
...difference was that Harvard had strengthand composure," UNH Coach Scott True said. "Ourguys lacked intensity in the first half. Ourtransition to offense was lax and our defensedidn't lunge enough...