Word: lax
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Only two days after a 23-year-old student at Virginia Tech carried out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the perennial heated debate over gun control has already begun. While gun control advocates have been quick to decry the dangers of lax regulations in Virginia and the rest of the nation, their Second Amendment opponents are already going on a counteroffensive; rather than simply defend their constitutionally protected right to bear arms, many are already treating the campus massacre as a call to arms...
...here. The most destitute young Bostonians turn to guns and gangs out of desperation. Yet India’s impoverished seem far less likely to view these as viable options. Massachusetts may have some of the strictest gun control laws in the United States, but they are still more lax than those in Maharashta, and little is done to negate the pro-gun ethos of Boston’s youth...
...security] culture is lax, we’re looking to make it more secure,” he said...
...deep investor pool under lighter regulations than those on competing markets. That's got U.S. rivals in a spin. As overseas firms bypass New York to trade on AIM - which now lists more than 300 foreign companies, one-fifth of them from the U.S. - it has faced accusations of lax standards. In January, NYSE CEO John Thain claimed AIM "did not have any standards at all, and anyone could list." A month later, Roel Campos, a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock-market regulator, branded AIM a "casino," with 30% of new firms "gone...
...ANGELES The colossal Airbus A380 lands at LAX...