Word: lax
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...charged, as a potentially crucial link to larger dealers and perhaps the root of the outbreak. While overseeing operations on Chicago's West Side and just southwest of the city, the man allegedly used children, including a teenage Russian girl, as runners because juvenile laws are more lax on those busted. "He's like a street boss. We've moved up a level with this arrest," said Limon...
...DOUBLE JUBILEEAs a result of the interactions Whitman had been used to, she says she “veered towards guys who were older.” On the particular night of a “Jolly-up”—smoky Radcliffe mixers with lax alcohol rules—two graduate students decided to celebrate the completion of their oral exams by doing something mindless: getting jollied-up. One of the doctoral students, who led Whitman’s Gen Ed section, hated dancing with his students. So his friend, Robert Whitman, took her hand?...
...spots dotting the tourist maps that are well stocked with pristine prettiness and antebellum hospitality, but like A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche DuBois, the real New Orleans hasn't possessed much beauty or charm for nearly 30 years. The deep wealth and class divisions, the decayed infrastructure, the lax civil-engineering management, the depleted city coffers, the lawless depravity, the history of political corruption by a long line of city and state officials, and the incompetent governance that television viewers are discovering are, to use the local vernacular, the roux of a long-simmering pot of gumbo that finally...
There is a small but hardy band of researchers who insist the dropout rates don't quite approach those levels. They point to their pet surveys that suggest a rate of only 15% to 20%. The dispute is difficult to referee, particularly in the wake of decades of lax accounting by states and schools. But the majority of analysts and lawmakers have come to this consensus: the numbers have remained unchecked at approximately 30% through two decades of intense educational reform, and the magnitude of the problem has been consistently, and often willfully, ignored...
...rapidly growing sport in the U.S., but it has historically been a game of the privileged and protected, played at lite prep schools and colleges and at public schools located mostly in wealthy areas. A favorite slogan at Duke: "There's only one fraternity on campus--LAX [the nickname for lacrosse]." Fifteen members of the team have committed prior, mostly frat-jock infractions, ranging from public urination to noise violations...