Word: laxness
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Conventional government intervention has largely failed, notably in the chaotic and counterproductive welfare system, which is at once too lax and too rigid. We have been more successful than is often realized in ending or alleviating certain kinds of poverty. The underclass, with its devastated family life, its single mothers and routine teenage pregnancies (among black teenagers, nearly 90% of babies are born out of wedlock), is a nightmare reproach to America. But it is also a relatively isolated phenomenon -- far more so than the poverty that festered behind the proud facades of Victorian England, for example. It requires separate...
Campus crime statistics will hold universities accountable for the safety of their students. Safe schools would attract more students and those notoriously lax on security measures would have to shape up to compete...
...difference was that Harvard had strengthand composure," UNH Coach Scott True said. "Ourguys lacked intensity in the first half. Ourtransition to offense was lax and our defensedidn't lunge enough...
...would say there is a general consensus that the colleges have been too lax," Sabatine says...
...pain and dislocation they cause, tighter defense budgets could lead to a more efficient industry. As the Pentagon encourages more competition for contracts, companies that grew lax during the Reagan buildup will be forced to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of their products. McDonnell Douglas, the No. 1 defense contractor, is currently competing with Boeing for a contract to build a new generation of light military helicopters. McDonnell Douglas boasted last week that its new choppers can be easily repaired in the field. Everything from their turbine engines to their pit- viper cannons can be fine-tuned with twelve...