Word: laxness
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With the influx of student grumbling this fall, superintendents cite problems in the storage process, from lax security to overcrowding, that contribute to items getting lost or stolen...
...some extent these delays are unavoidable; they are part of the changed world in which we find ourselves after Sept. 11. The government cannot allow a flawed, lax visa process to compromise America’s security. One of the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the U.S. on a student visa, yet never showed up at school. And in a highly publicized and incredibly embarrassing mistake, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) sent letters to a flight school in Florida saying that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi could exchange their tourist visas for student visas—six months after...
...Working with three female leads was an emotional experience on and off camera. "It was a little troublesome," Yuen admits. The three were competitive but lax about training. "So I played a little trick on them. I filmed a Shu Qi scene and then edited it, put in music and enhanced the action so it looked really, really good. I didn't show it to her though: I showed it to the other girls. They took a look at the video and said 'Oh my gosh she's doing so well! Can we match that?' After that, everyone started training...
...those of bowling leagues. As a result, sailing "draws from a far deeper pipeline today," says Nick Craw, head of U.S. Sailing, which serves as the national competitive governing body and runs popular youth summer camps. But as sailing turns into a more plebeian--read: more crowded--activity, lax maritime safety becomes a concern, just as it has with powerboating. Hence sailing associations' insistence on certification standardization, which has stiffened safety and emergency-procedure training...
State Republican Party leaders and White House officials have in recent weeks sought to deflect political fallout from the controversy surrounding the collapse of Enron and WorldCom and the rash of high profile earnings restatements. Several have argued that problems with lax oversight began during the Clinton administration, pointing out that many of Enron’s questionable deals occurred during the 1990s...