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Word: laxness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chen argued that most Asian nations are still groping to find that policy. In South Korea, too rigid government planning has led the country into several unsuccessful ventures like automobile manufacturing. The crucial task for governments, said Chen, will be to seek out a course that is neither too lax nor too heavyhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hooked on Growth | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

Such corporate safeguards are often shockingly lax, particularly when the transmission of computer data is involved. Many firms now routinely bounce this information off satellites instead of sending it over telephone lines. But satellite transmissions are easier to intercept. Companies often fail to take elementary precautions even when they use phone lines. Bank of America transfers about $20 billion by wire every day, for example, without making much use of either scrambling or encryption techniques for protection. The largest U.S. bank relies instead on its own security procedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Cloak and Dagger | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Paris has thus become the Continent's undisputed center of terrorism for a variety of reasons. Traditionally, the country has been known as a land of asylum. It has favored an open visa system, a loose border policy and lax airport checks. Mitterrand has adopted a less stringent policy toward terrorists than his conservative predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Killing Ground on the Seine | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...Assistant Com missioner John Bellow last week faced the delicate task of determining where security had failed and where improve ments could be made. Dellow's dilemma: the royal family dislikes security precautions so much and is so well regarded that measures for its safekeeping have become too lax. Ronald Reagan, by contrast, is so well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: God Save the Queen, Fast | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

Harvard's only loss came at the hands of Temple, who with the help of the flu; which plagued some of the Crimson, routed the lax-women, 10-2. Ironically enough, the seventh-seeded lax women will get a chance to reanswer the part of the mid-term they blew and face the second-seeded Owls for all the marbles in the first round of the tournament, today...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Laxwomen Set to Face Owls in National Tourney | 5/13/1982 | See Source »

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