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Spock thinks his contribution has not been lax discipline, but more relaxed parents. "The main effect of the book is to give parents confidence, and I think I succeeded better than I ever thought I could...
...National security violations. The Pentagon is looking into allegations of lax security at meetings of the General Dynamics board of directors, where top-secret subjects are supposedly discussed without adequate safeguards against leaks. Questions have been raised about how Veliotis, after leaving the company and losing his security clearance, obtained classified photographs of the interior of the newest Trident. Veliotis has turned over the sensitive pictures, which Soviet engineers could use to gauge the Trident's capabilities, to the Justice Department...
...course, but they are more likely to strike developing nations than industrialized ones. The reasons are both complex and delicate. Some critics charge that corporate greed is at fault, that big businesses will set up shop in a poor nation simply to take advantage of cheap labor and lax laws. Says David Bull, chief of the Environment Liaison Center in Nairobi, Kenya: "There is a growing tendency for the larger multinational chemical concerns to locate their more hazardous factories in developing countries to escape the stringent safety regulations which they must follow at home...
When a grandmother was abducted from the parking lot of a shopping mall and raped, Allred sued the center for lax security. She won an $85,000 settlement; the adverse publicity forced the mall to adopt more stringent protection for shoppers. When an oil company refused to promote a woman to its marketing department because customers in South America were reluctant to deal with women, Allred sued. An appellate court ruled that a company may not discriminate because of customer preference. Badgered by Allred, a dry-cleaning chain decided to equalize the prices it charged for cleaning similar...
...added that in previous years the police have been lax on allowing alcohol into the stands, but this year "there will be a firm stand taken against bringing alcoholic beverages into the stadium...