Word: laxness
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...Based on the circumstances surrounding these charges, it is very likely that it will be downgraded to district court here in Princeton Borough,” he said. If the court remands the case down to Princeton Borough, it would most likely result in more lax consequences for the offense, McManimon said...
...that the European Union's €100 million annual budget was vulnerable to fraud and abuse; in Brussels. She was hired in 2002 to clean up the E.U.'s accounting procedures but was suspended for disloyalty and breach of trust a few months later, after she complained about its lax accounting system. BARRED SAUDI WOMEN; from voting in the country's first nationwide municipal elections; in the capital, Riyadh. The country's election committee head, Prince Mansour bin Mutib bin Abdul Aziz, said it isn't possible to set up voting booths for women or to identify the vast majority...
...character is necessary to establish her as a woman at a stage in her life in which her sexual proclivities are pushed to the forefront of her developing emotional maturity. At times the film plays like a kind of realist La Dolce Vita, showing a woman so lax and free of worldly commitment that her desire for pleasure becomes the core of her identity...
Goss, who has spent several days at CIA headquarters studying for the hearing, could also be grilled on what some Democrats regard as his committee's lax oversight of intelligence matters--failing to correct problems that, according to the 9/11 commission and other investigations, may have paved the way for 9/11 and intelligence mistakes on Iraq. But that line of questioning could backfire. Goss and his defenders could point out that, whatever shortcomings Goss's committee can be accused of in the years leading up to 9/11 and the Iraq war, the same could be said of the Senate intelligence...
...However, Harris Chowdhury, a key adviser to Prime Minister Zia, denies the charge that his government is lax in protecting the rights of Hindus and says Bangladesh's record in safeguarding religious minorities is superior to that of many of its neighbors. Dismissing critics who accuse his government of failing to curb lawlessness, he insists: "The law-and-order situation in this country is quite good...