Word: lax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even giving Clinton's trial the dignity of a split screen--one Senator wailed that he couldn't believe his eyes. "How could the Holy Father be seen with such a man?" It's been a heavy enough cross to bear that the American people have gone morally lax, but the Pontiff too? Next thing, we'll have to protect the children from...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III-who has frequently conflicted with the final clubs in recent years, critiquing what he calls lax alcohol policies--said he believes it is a step in the right direction...
...play was one of many that drew cries ofprotest from Wheaton and the crowd over whatappeared to be lax officiating. A total of ninefouls were called on a day in which virtuallyevery drive seemed marred by a player spill...
...standing here on my bully pulpit railing against "lax academic standards"--not I, one of the beneficiaries of grade inflation! I suppose I'm struggling more with the idea of Truth, at least in the context of academic writing--the sort of writing that occupies each of us at least for the years we are here...
...Department of the Interior is also lax, and the enforcement record of the state and federal departments, charges activist Elyssa Rosen of the Sierra Club, ranges from "incompetent to complicit." But it is federal nonfeasance that has allowed a part of the Deal that may be worse than the gush of dollars. This is the "incidental takings" provision of the misnamed "Habitat Conservation Plan." HCPS were invented in the Reagan Administration, but they have flourished like mushrooms in the timid Clinton years. They are intended to mollify the rage of landowners against the Endangered Species Act. Well, they might, because...