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...Barbouti's IBI had set up a network of offices stretching from Europe to Asia. In West Germany, where export-license rules have been hopelessly lax (but now, belatedly, are undergoing revision), he signed up Imhausen-Chemie as chief subcontractor for the project. Intelligence officials say Barbouti's newly opened offices in Hong Kong helped arrange a complex scheme by which material was sent to Imhausen's representative in Hong Kong and transshipped to Rabta. In this way, they explain, Barbouti managed to avoid arousing suspicions about Gaddafi's real intent...
...enforcement is lax here, folks. More lax than Don Knotts was on The Andy Griffith Show. So if you want to sample the native wares, go right ahead. You can probably get away with it. But if you do manage to get caught--a feat that Harry Houdini might find difficult--you will have a more miserable life than the guy who guest-hosts The Pat Sajak Show...
...article written for the March issue of Penthouse magazine, David L. Weller '92 and fellow Stuyvesant High School graduate Larry Schultzargue that lax security measures allow impostors to take the SAT and substitute their scores for others. The SAT is the largest college preparatory entrance examination in the country, given to more than 2 million students each year...
...those years were under attack. "They have been raised in an era when equal opportunity has been questioned," says Albert Camarillo, chairman of a Stanford University committee on minority concerns. "They have heard people ask if we have done too much for minorities." Others blame the Reagan Administration's lax enforcement of civil rights laws for making prejudice socially acceptable. "The Reagan years provided a context that made people feel more comfortable expressing intolerance," says John S. Wilson, assistant director of corporate development at M.I.T...
...more affluent, one-fifth of America's children live in poverty. While there was a legitimate need to increase defense resources, the Administration tolerated such sloth that blatant waste and scams eventually evoked an anti-Pentagon backlash. While Reagan celebrated deregulation as the key to a more creative economy, lax scrutiny of the savings and loan industry contributed to widespread failures that will cost taxpayers tens of billions. Wall Street's obsession with wasteful takeovers diverted resources away from constructive investment, while stagnation in basic research for civilian technology inhibited innovation. Efforts to compete effectively with Japan and other striving...