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James Hargis. An ultra-right Fundamentalist, Hargis, 50, has long denounced sexual sin and spoken out as a defender of traditional virtues in an increasingly lax society. In 1968, his organization published the bestseller (250,000 copies) Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach...
...Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. Doctors there discovered the high Kepone level and notified Dr. Robert Jackson, the state epidemiologist and acting director of Virginia's bureau of preventive medical services. Jackson visited the Life Science plant, witnessed what he described as incredibly lax and sloppy conditions, and examined ten employees. Seven had symptoms similar to Gilbert's. Since then, doctors have examined 131 people who worked for Life Science at various times. More than half showed symptoms of Kepone poisoning, which include brain and liver damage, slurred speech, loss of memory...
Many defaults, of course, come about because, at a time of high unemployment, new graduates either cannot find jobs or earn too little to pay off their loans. Still, the default rate obviously indicates lax Government administration of FISL. John J. Walsh, an investigator for the subcommittee, reported to the Senators that he found files on student loans strewn all over some HEW regional offices. HEW officials told the Senators that they have not kept track of the total number of loans outstanding, much less the amount of insured loans at any one school, or whether any particular student borrower...
Nevertheless, in retrospect, the agents were guilty of "erroneous human judgment," as Montoya termed it. Moore's futile last-minute attempts in three telephone calls to reach the agents again on the morning of the shooting make the agency appear to have been lax. Yet Moore on each call apparently expressed no urgency. In one call at 8 a.m. she reached only an answering service, and on the other two calls she reached low-level clerks who were wholly unaware of who she was or what she wanted...
...major free nation, even where the problem of political dissidence is serious, are handguns as readily obtainable as in the U.S.-one explanation for the relatively lax security arrangements of many nations. Regulations of ownership and licensing tend to be strict. In four of the largest democratic nations, defenses against rash acts of violence vary...