Word: lax
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...survivor of prostate cancer, I owe my life to those on the front line of medical research, the courageous participants in clinical trials. But to those researchers who use shoddy procedures and put their patients at risk, as well as those institutions whose lax oversight undermines public trust, shame! Without well-designed research efforts, fully informed patients and strict oversight, we will not be able to find and develop the medicines and therapies we desperately need to treat debilitating diseases. As a board member of Friends of Cancer Research and a cancer survivor, I am all for clinical trials...
Another downside is that the actors’ blocking, which is generally effective, feels constricted when confined to one corner of the stage (which happens more often than one would like). Scenes feel static, crowded or both, as in one early scene when the lax Kaffee sits on the edge of a table during a meeting. The choice is appropriate for his character, but it blocks the poor actor behind him from the audience’s view...
While the study does not draw any conclusions as to why firearm homicides are so much higher in the United States, according to Hemenway the data does suggest that the country’s comparatively lax gun laws could be a cause...
...work from the ones that are useless or actively harmful. Yet the very nature of human testing involves risk; nobody can tell in advance whether a new medicine carries unforeseen dangers. And so clinicians are forced to walk an ethical and scientific tightrope. Make the rules protecting patients too lax, and subjects will suffer and even die needlessly. Make them too strict, and lifesaving medications won't make it out of the lab quickly enough to help the people who need them most...
Over the past few years, the U.S. tax system has started to play Robin Hood in reverse. The availability of new tax shelters, combined with lax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has let the rich and dishonest evade their obligations and increase the burden on the American public. Without drastic reform, tax loopholes and outright evasion will create a vast paid subsidy for the wealthy—or, to put it another way, a huge hidden tax on everyone else...