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...claimed the right to tap individual health files. More than a quarter of Americans responding to a 1993 Harris poll said health information about them had been improperly disclosed. The issue has caught Congress's attention: legislation designed to protect medical-record privacy--but which critics say is too lax--is pending before the Senate...
...wind, wound its lethal path across the Soviet Union's best farmland north toward Scandinavia. By week's end, an ominous pall of radiation had spread across Eastern Europe and toward the shores of the Mediterranean. The fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures and its concealment of the fact that the dangerous radiation was floating toward neighboring countries. Ten years later, the site remains a contaminated mess. President Clinton and the other leaders of the G-7 last week renewed a pledge of $3.1 billion to help shut down the two nuclear...
...blamed Smith for being lax about record-keeping unless the president himself supervised...
...Susan were taken aback. They were admittedly lax about such tax matters themselves, but they had an employee whose job was to make sure taxes on the developments got paid on time. But whatever the reason for the delinquency, in Clinton's anger McDougal saw a glimmer of opportunity. Perhaps he could extricate the Clintons from the deal while still saving face. "Let's just get you out of this," McDougal suggested. Whitewater will "break even," McDougal euphemistically said, but that was the best that could be hoped for. Bill and Hillary could simply sign over their interest...
...recent years Mexico has replaced Panama as the leading drug-money Laundromat in Latin America. And much of the money stays in Mexico. Aided by lax government regulation and the willingness of Mexican banks to accept suitcases full of cash without asking questions, drug barons have been able to squirrel billions of dollars into legitimate businesses; Garcia Abrego owns dozens of such businesses, including computer stores, car dealerships and meat-packing plants. The effect on the economy can be pernicious. Since businesses supplied with capital from drug dealing don't have to worry about profits, efficiency or paying interest, they...