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...party has contended that single parent families are an acceptable alternative to two parent families. Her party has supported welfare, abortion and lax crime policies that tell people they don't have to take responsibility for their actions. Most of all her party has taken prayer away from students and has embraced anti-traditional values like homosexuality. Is it really any wonder that the Republican Party has the support of the American people on these issues? After all, only the Republican party has opposed them for the last several decades...
...These lax punishments enraged Congress and devastated morale in the agency. Young case officers had chafed under the CIA's authoritarian bureaucracy and had been privately demanding a housecleaning. Sept. 28, the date Woolsey announced his punishments in the case, was dubbed "Whitewash Wednesday" by the disgruntled spies. After the announcement, the operations directorate opened a secret hotline so case officers could vent their complaints. It was flooded with so many angry calls that embarrassed officials shut it down after 24 hours...
...suicide. Dale is accused of wrongfully pocketing at least $33,297. "Mr. Dale never spent a penny of government money or media money," his attorney, Steven C. Tabackman, said outside court. Dale claims that records taken from the travel office will prove his innocence. The Clinton Administration, complaining of lax management of the travel office, fired Dale and the other six employees...
Salisbury social life was very lax. Lessing married the scion of a respectable family whom she did not love and produced two children. She walked out on that fledgling family to marry a Communist, Gottfried Lessing, with whom she had another child. Everyone drank, smoked and caroused. During her pregnancy by Lessing, she felt the need of an affair and nailed her man at once, a dedicated womanizer. By the end of the book she has moved to London with only the youngest child. (Though she saw Lessing when he too came to England, the relationship was over.) These facts...
...early going, Harvard (3-0-1 Ivy, 3-7-1 overall) allowed Boston College (4-5-2) to control play. Harvard's lax defense permitted Boston College to dominate in the Crimson end. That domination led to scoring opportunities--including an open shot from the inside the six-yard line five minutes into the game that miraculously went over Albers's head...