Word: laxness
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...while Whitman does have a respectable track record when it comes to clean air, shore protection and farmland preservation, she has consistently supported the interests of big business. She was famously lax when it came to regulating pollution by private companies, as evidenced by the fact that the Garden State remains the number one location for Superfund sites (and also the number one target for "smelly Turnpike" jokes). Coincidentally, and unfortunately, the EPA's major area of jurisdiction involves patrolling private companies. God help us if the whole country winds up like Newark...
...luring targets with the promise of escape, the traffickers can capitalize on more lenient visa requirements and lax law enforcement. Profits are considerable. The initial investment may be small-a few hundred dollars for dental work, new clothes and a plane ticket-but the payoff is upwards of $1,000 in Bucharest and $5,000 in Rome, plus prostitution profits generated along the way. The beauty of the trade, as one investigator puts it, lies in the fact that the victims can be sold and resold, producing income almost indefinitely. "It's better than mutual funds," quips the official...
...which shamed the IRS into a full-scale reorganization. A kinder, gentler agency is now focused on service to taxpayers more than on enforcement. The shift has been so total, in fact, that the consensus within the agency and among tax professionals is that the IRS has got too lax--and tax cheats have got bolder...
...first glance, the news seems routine. Four hundred deliverymen in Manhattan join a labor union and win $3 million in back pay. What's unusual is that the workers, predominantly from West Africa, are all undocumented. And, even more remarkable, these illegal immigrants, given lax immigration enforcement, have little reason to fear deportation. Indeed, one of them, Siaka Diakite, an Ivory Coast native, is now pictured in a widely distributed color brochure put out by the AFL-CIO. Says Charles Batchli, a plaintiff from the Congo: "It didn't matter who we were. We are human beings first. The question...
...tricky self-contradicting forms and a bureaucracy with absolutely no interest in issuing any gun permits to anyone in Jersey City. This was the biggest hurdle yet, and the temptation to smuggle in a rifle from Oregon was overwhelming (federal laws regulating interstate transport of firearms are surprisingly lax; I could have flown from Oregon to Jersey with a rifle as declared luggage and nobody would have blinked an eye at Newark International). I just couldn't stand the fact that I was losing six months of training because of some silly laws that put my single-shot...