Word: laxer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote on this week, does include some disappointments. The Food and Drug Administration will not be permitted to evaluate abortion inducing drugs like RU-486. Internet pornography has been restricted, which is a serious threat to First Amendment rights. In addition, there will be an increase in Alaskan logging, laxer grazing permits and more ozone-depleting pesticides. And despite the IMF funding and promises to the contrary, this year's budget does not come close to settling America's outstanding debt to the United Nations...
...Actually at the end of all this I hadn't fulfilled my course requirements. I think they were laxer about it [back then]...they just said, 'Oh, you've had some good experiences.' I think there was some issue of [course] distribution or something," he says. "In those days the senior tutor was all-powerful...
Trouble strikes when patients don't know about thalidomide's dark side -- and when those selling and dispensing the drug don't give adequate warning. Although the U.S. has strict rules governing thalidomide's use, controls are much laxer in some other parts of the world. The consequences are now apparent in Brazil, which has at least 46 new instances of birth defects caused by thalidomide. If there are cases in other countries, they haven't received the same publicity, but given the increasing use of the drug, health officials fear that the problem will be widespread...
...Canyon de Chelly, which I found much more striking than the Grand Canyon. While obviously not nearly as big, it is much more accessible and much steeper. There is none of the overcrowding, pollution, and commercialism which cheapens its big brother. The Navajo Indians also have laxer safety standards than the National Park Service so the truly stupid/daring can have a great time peering over the edge...
...back, Dave Thomas and Sally Kellerman starred as a live-action BORIS AND NATASHA, the spy-in-the-face nemeses of Jay Ward's immortal Rocky and Bullwinkle. Charles Martin Smith's film was never released, but it is now being aired on Showtime. Because the small screen has laxer standards for comedy (after all . . . Full House?), you may briefly indulge the strenuously facetious antics, the wisenheimer narration, the cameos by John Travolta and John Candy. Soon, though, the adventure parody gets painful -- a kind of Traitors of the Lost Aardvark. Hokey smoke, what's next? Ted Danson as Clutch...