Word: lax
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...alert," said Chuck Lambert, chief economist at the U.S. National Cattlemen's Beef Association as Department of Agriculture inspectors imposed strict checks on goods and passengers arriving from Britain and France. "We have to re-energize our systems and not be lax." From Sydney to Seattle, worried officials banned European meat imports, confiscated sandwiches and decontaminated arriving passengers to prevent inadvertent infection by a disease that, like everything else these days, is going global...
...alert," said Chuck Lambert, chief economist at the U.S. National Cattlemen's Beef Association as Department of Agriculture inspectors imposed strict checks on goods and passengers arriving from Britain and France. "We have to re-energize our systems and not be lax." From Sydney to Seattle, worried officials banned European meat imports, confiscated sandwiches and decontaminated arriving passengers to prevent inadvertent infection by a disease that, like everything else these days, is going global. Full Story...
...Monday, and the loss for their families is immeasurable. The first lesson should be that any threats should be reported, as many warning signs went unheeded by students and adults in this case. The second is that of gun control--teens only have access to life-ending force because lax gun laws and careless parents make guns the weapon of choice. The stance of the National Rifle Association and of President George W. Bush on tightening gun restrictions is inexcusable, but that is another subject. In the face of mandatory sentencing for this 15-year-old as an adult...
...Some argue that the stream of violence is abetted by lax or nonexistent gun laws. Others argue the current laws are just fine, thanks, it's just that someone needs to enforce them. Still others insist that while laws are a critical tool for cutting down on juvenile gun violence, we need to place more emphasis on identifying and helping the kids who eventually turn guns on their classmates and, sometimes, themselves. Then, of course, there are cries for parental responsibility...
...misbehavior. Those tests are controversial, and Freeh has resisted using them, despite pressure from his own National Security Division managers to do so ever since the 1994 debacle. There must be "a happy medium," says former CIA chief Jim Woolsey, between overzealous, career-destroying tests and the FBI's lax ways. Why wasn't Hanssen caught even when he regularly ran his own name and particulars through CBI computers? "That should have triggered something," declares Shelby, echoing the concerns of many on Capitol Hill...