Word: laxness
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...result is that if we want to supply the campus with recycled paper (and by that I refer not to the "recycled" paper so labeled under lax regulations, but rather to paper with a considerable post-consumer waste content), it is not possible to make volume deals which would both reduce our cost and improve the market by generating sizable demand. President Rudenstine has made the environment a test case for interschool cooperation at the University, but to be effective he must expand this cooperation beyond the curriculum...
Many Israelis were worrying almost as much about their country's behavior. Testimony has pointed to considerable official negligence. Security procedures were surprisingly lax at a shrine that has been a notorious flash point for tensions. Authorities did not take seriously the threat of settler mayhem, although warning signs were plentiful. And many were asking whether the security forces overreacted in the aftermath of the massacre. Before it is even completed, the inquiry is raising the specter of high-level resignations...
...with the dawn of new era in the CIA and with the self-conscious effort to leave the pathologies of Angleton behind, the CIA got lax with its own personnel...
...lax, indeed, that when Rick Ames purchased a $540,000 suburban home--with cash--on a $70,000 a year salary, no heads turned in Langley, Virginia. If it is true that the CIA operates satellites which are able to read a license plate number from deepest darkest space it would seem they could do a better job in keeping an eye on their own personnel...
...Education officials, both inside and outside the Government, are well aware of the problem. The Education Secretary, Richard S. Riley, recently called his department's management of its main scholarship program `worse than lax.' Robert Atwell, president of the American Council on Education, representing 1,600 colleges and universities, terms the fraud and abuse `an intolerable embarassment...