Word: lax
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...ties between the FARC and Ecuadorian Security Minister Gustavo Larrea. Correa vehemently denies it, insisting his military has removed FARC camps inside Ecuador and that Colombia - whose own military is often accused by human rights groups of killing innocent civilians in its hunt for FARC rebels - is being too lax about policing its own side of the border and preventing the rebels from seeping into his country...
...color scheme) but otherwise owned and operated independently. Each has its own business model--different services for different customers in a different set of cities--but they can work together as needed. Virgin Atlantic, V Australia and Virgin America, for example, plan to share a first-class lounge at LAX and thus reduce overhead. Virgin America, V Australia and Virgin Blue can decide on a whim to allow some of their flight attendants to trade cities for a year or compare notes--as their CEOs did during lunch with Branson in Los Angeles--on in-flight-ordering software or customer...
Branson likes to cultivate an image of himself as a risk taker. He was right in character at the press conference announcing V Australia, staged inside one of the departure terminals at LAX, to the slight confusion of people walking toward security. As Brett Godfrey, Virgin Blue's CEO, unveils the airline's introductory fare--$1,000 round trip between Sydney and Los Angeles--Branson, in jeans and a rumpled polo shirt, interrupts. "That's not good enough," he declares. "What kind of plane are we flying? 777s? Then let's make it $777 for the first thousand tickets!" People...
...global project." Reid insists that Latin America's democratic and capitalist reforms are the right path; he notes that Brazil's poverty rate dropped from 43% in 1993 to 30% in 2005. But he warns that Latin governments as well as that of the U.S. have been inexcusably lax about using those changes to build institutions--like reliable judiciaries, for example--in a way that spreads the new wealth: "Latin America has seen too many revolutions and not enough reform...
...Southwest Airlines to fly 46 planes that had missed inspections. Congress has been holding hearings on aviation safety, during which Robert Sturgell, the FAA's acting administrator, who is up for the permanent position, has had to answer charges, from whistle-blowers and lawmakers, of excessive coziness with and lax oversight of the nation's commercial carriers...