Word: laxness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While the Food and Drug Administration has chosen to downplay the risk associated with tuna, watchdog organizations like the Environmental Working Group and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group are throwing up red flags, accusing the FDA of taking a lax position on an important safety issue...
...infuriating blindness that means none of my British friends have heard of Jorie Graham. Perusing his last book of lyric poems (The Breakage, Mariner Books) before Wednesday’s reading only seemed to confirm, though, that here was the most English of poets; formal, in the perversely lax manner of late Auden: Colloquial and ironic to the point of self-effacement...
...place, you should build a new residential house on that land. I propose the name “Rubalcava House,” but I’m willing to negotiate. The point is, there are too many students at Harvard. Maybe our admissions standards are getting too lax (I would be Exhibit A in that court case), or maybe our admissions officers and House masters have an optimistic view of what constitutes “living space.” Come by my room, Larry—it’s Eliot K-31. I’ll show...
...safe would you feel if 50 men in your House subscribed to a magazine that advises parents to send their sons to schools with lax policies on sexual assault? What attitudes—and behaviors—might be associated with reading such a publication? Now go to your mail room and see how many issues of Maxim are delivered. In Cabot House this month, it was 47. Is that acceptable...
...part of that concern is valid, says Donnelly, although not for the reason one might think. "At this point, the primary fear is: Will irradiation be used as a panacea for lax standards throughout the meat production process...