Word: laxness
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Some observers criticized the police response to the riots as sympathetic to the mobs or lax. In a throng surrounding a Carrefour megastore in an upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a woman told TIME that police officers were encouraging people to head for the store. But when demonstrators marched on government buildings and set fires outside the Presidential Palace and on the ground floor of the Economy Ministry building, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd...
...rehab, one of Zhang's legs is 3 cm shorter than the other, causing her to limp. Having spent her savings on the botched operation, Zhang can't afford more surgery. Such malpractice is common in China's booming south, where fly-by-night surgeons take advantage of lax hospital rules. Many patients have ended up with damaged nerves, severe infections, dangerously brittle bones or mismatched legs. "This is not an easy surgery like a nose job," says a doctor at the International Center for Limb Lengthening in Baltimore, Maryland. "You can't just operate on every short person...
...Institute of Politics seems to be particularly lax in this regard. It was disturbing to see former Vice President Al Gore ’69 feel obliged to wear a suit and tie to adress Harvard students, many of whom could not even put on a long pair of trousers to hear him. Wearing something other than jeans and a t-shirt does not imply that you are old and stuffy; it simply demonstrates a modicum of respect. If the former vice president has the time to throw on a jacket, the students who go to hear him should have...
...company hired to screen passengers at the nation's largest airports, Argenbright Security has proved unnervingly lax at screening its own employees. Last year, following an investigation at the Philadelphia airport, Argenbright pleaded guilty to criminal charges of falsifying employee backgrounds, which had led to the hiring of those whose records included drug possession and aggravated assault. The FAA imposed a probation, and Argenbright's then parent company, AHL, paid $1.6 million in penalties...
...brave enough to alter existing policies that might incite terrorism? To stop the sanctions on Iraq and take our troops out of Saudi Arabia? Are we brave enough to look critically at our relationship with Saudi Arabia and ask if our dependence on oil has made us too lax with a state that helps fund bin Laden’s ventures? Are we willing to trade our big cars and big muscle for smaller cars and a dose of national modesty? Are we brave enough to aggressively work towards nuclear disarmament and engender an international framework for peace, justice...