Word: lax
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...investigation into academic plagiarism published in December 2004, the Chronicle of Higher Education found that “the same professors who constantly bemoan their students’ lax attitudes toward plagiarism often clam up when it is their colleagues doing the copying...
...there for him in nearly the numbers in which they watched Friends. Sunday, when The Contender, the boxing reality show from Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) proved to have a glass jaw. Pretty much any night that saw the debuts of a poor-performing class of new shows (LAX, Hawaii, Committed, Father of the Pride...
...team’s five seniors have led this effort, enforcing any sign of lax efforts with an impassioned diligence. The team practices up to two-and-a-half hours a day, six days a week, every week of the academic year—with only one week’s vacation. Members are only allowed three absences each semester; when they come late, they are penalized with extra workouts or fundraising tasks...
...judge disapproval of their costumes, not the intimidation factor, that knocked CDT out of contention for finals last Thursday. In past years the NDA judges have been far more lax with suggestive moves and music, so the docked points came as a shock...
...Diego-based carrier. Working as an auditor on the ship, he accumulated about 1,100 pages of notes and documents on what he describes as appalling acts of waste, fraud, auditing forgeries and altered books in the handling of spare parts and other equipment. The system was so lax, Jackson charges, that when bookkeepers in various departments feared they were exceeding their budgets on supplies, they simply neglected to enter further purchases in the computerized record system. Jackson contends that he examined twelve departments last March and discovered that $2.45 million worth of supplies had been received aboard the ship...