Word: laxness
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...Church's lax policy on religious observance for choir members helps keep them there. During the Sunday services, choir members are concealed from the congregation by the altar screen, and are known to read or doze off during the sermon...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT is furious--and embarrassed. It is bad enough the State Department had to admit that a notebook computer with sensitive material had vanished last January from its ultrasecure internal spy shop after Albright's inspector general warned about lax security there just months before. Now, intelligence sources tell TIME that the laptop in the Intelligence and Research Bureau contained critical data on weapons proliferation: the spread of missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Some of that intelligence came from signals intercepts classified as "Gamma"-level Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), two levels above Top Secret...
Harvard is best known for its largest departments, economics and government, popular with the Adidas set (they don't call 'em gov jocks for nothing). These departments are vast and impersonal but have blessedly lax requirements. Or you could go a more obscure route--Folklore and Mythology, anyone...
Since Megan's Law was introduced in 1994, public defenders have argued that its notification requirements were too far-reaching and that confidentiality guidelines were too lax. Although recent, more stringent specifications bulk up those safeguards by requiring recipients of identifying information to sign a pledge of confidentiality, they say that there is little that authorities can (or are willing to) do when that pledge is broken by anxious parents or school officials. Supporters of the notification process want the information to be made as widely available as possible - advocating, for instance, its posting on the Internet. They also point...
Luckily, however, many states have joined in the suit and could persevere despite a lax Administration. Furthermore, the decision will provide grist for class-action suits filed by individuals. There is, therefore, good reason to hope that Microsoft's abusive monopoly will eventually be restrained...