Word: lax
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...problem that is in dire need of a suture. Simply cutting the pay of executives does little to address the systemic problems that helped give rise to the financial crisis. The Obama administration now has a unique opportunity to capitalize on populist discontent with policies that correct the lax regulatory regime that helped enable the financial meltdown. Real change to the current system, which incentivizes unnecessary risk-taking and corporate irresponsibility, cannot be replaced with simply cutting executive pay. The recent cuts are, in reality, a slap on the wrist for executives who will still enjoy multi-million-dollar...
...Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in August cited hundreds of attacks on rangers during a five-month period in 2009, resulting in 14 serious injuries. Illegal loggers and animal poachers have tried to run over officials with their vehicles, according to the report, and attack rangers with syringes. Lax management and local authorities colluding with loggers were partly to blame for the illegal logging of 3,200 acres (1,300 hectares) in the first half of 2009. (Read about illegal logging for biofuel production in Indonesia...
This year, Yale released tailgate rules for this year’s Harvard-Yale Game that, while largely unchanged from two years ago, are markedly more lax than the controversial ones issued by Harvard last year...
...should encourage a generation of kids to grow up—as my mother might say—“effing” this and “essing” that, if only because that would be extremely unsettling. But in other countries, broadcast standards are more lax, without any evidence of a nationwide epidemic of depravity. In the United Kingdom, broadcasters must observe a similarly aquatic “watershed” time, from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m., but they’re not nearly so demure about it. There are popular British programs chock...
...Rudd government is equally adamant that the increasing numbers of refugees reflect international trends, not lax policy. "Countries like the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Italy are all facing increased numbers of asylum-seekers, much more in the order of tens of thousands than those we are seeing," Immigration Minister Chris Evans told the Senate in Canberra on Sept. 14. The government is striving to curb human smugglers by improving ties with law-enforcement agencies and border guards in Asian transit countries. On Sept. 15, Evans also announced that Australia has pledged $15.5 million to the U.N. Office on Drugs...