Word: laxness
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Because practices have been confined for six weeks to the limited facilities of Briggs Cage, Munro has no idea yet how good Wilson will be. The winningest coach in Harvard lax history will use his 17 years' experience and the next twelve days on the field to renovate him for the start of the Southern trip, which begins at Hofstra April 4 and will continue with Rutgers, Washington State and Loyola Colleges of Baltimore, and Adelphi. The Crimson will then come home to face M.I.T. in preparation for improving their tied-for-last finish in the seven-team Ivy race...
...prefaced his remarks with an anecdote about what it takes to be an authority on such a subject, relating that--at one point--the U.N. feared it was being too lax about the qualifications of its African experts. As a result, a directive was issued which established that "you can't be an expert on an African country any longer if you've only flown over it by night...
...impact, aerospace profits remain low: 3.1% of sales against 5.5% for all U.S. manufacturers. One reason: in a little-noted change of vast consequence, cost-conscious Robert McNamara has switched Pentagon buying away from lax, cost-plus contracts toward fixed-price, incentive awards. Increasingly, defense contractors must sharpen both their engineering and their bids to win business. Efficient operators who trim costs or beat delivery schedules are rewarded with higher profits; fumblers are being winnowed out. Says Northrop Chairman Tom Jones: "It's a sporty course...
...study said, that the night shift, which had a 40% heavier work load than the day shift, actually had 17% fewer men. The force is so slothful that an aggrieved Baltimorean cannot even be sure that his complaint will be recorded, much less acted on. Investigation is so lax that at least four times in the past year police have attributed deaths to natural causes, despite knife and gunshot wounds on the victims' bodies. Recruitment standards are so low that almost anyone with an eighth-grade education can make patrolman. Civil liberties have been widely ignored by investigators...
...Launched in 1927, she has flown U.S., Liberian and Panamanian flags, was registered in Panama when she went down. Thus, though long past the retirement age for U.S. passenger ships, generally kept in service no more than 20 years, she was required under international law to meet only the lax safety standards in force when she was built. Twice last year she broke down before sailing, leaving hundreds of passengers on the pier. On each of the four trips she completed, according to former Operator John E. Smith Jr., she was more than 15 hours late, ran out of water...