Word: laxness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Last week, I thought I had left Hollywood when I boarded a plane at LAX and landed in Amarillo, Texas. Since my upcoming rollicking profile of Charlize Theron (Hollywood is also where you're allowed to shamelessly plug) wasn't due until this week, I had taken a brief hiatus from my showbiz beat to chronicle the latest troubling chapter in America's drug war. In the summer of 1999, 43 residents of Tulia, Texas - a dry little town of less than 5,000 people in the windswept panhandle - were arrested for dealing cocaine. It was the most ambitious drug...
...chagrin of its outstanding fire department, the Big Apple's police are the ones known as New York's Finest. That accolade undergoes some expert scrutiny in this lively anecdotal history of the force, which began as a loosely organized, ethically lax group of constables. Some things don't change. As the authors note, "The great corruption scandals have come along every 20 years or so, with almost astronomical regularity...
...lighter administrative penalty. But Washington is in the grip of security paranoia. After the FBI's bungled espionage investigation of government nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, the Administration is eager to show it is not singling out Asian Americans for security violations. Albright, under fire from Congress for lax safeguards at the State Department, was not about to give Indyk just a slap on the wrist. Besides, relations between the two had grown chilly because of clashes over how the U.S. should deal with Iraq. "So she's hung Martin out to dry," complains a former U.S. diplomat...
...country. At a time when alarming shootings at Columbine High School and other schools across the country have shocked many into reassessing our current gun laws, Bush # has been the NRA's best friend in Texas, passing and maintaining laws that undermine even the minimum standards of already lax federal laws. In the meantime, close to 2,500 Texans a year are killed by guns...
...Wilderness tires were failing in the gulf region was that the company had decided to use the North American-made tires even though Firestone had warned that they were "not meant" for the rugged terrain. Ford says it knows of no such document. Thanks to NHTSA's lax reporting requirements, the companies weren't legally required to inform the agency of any problems overseas...