Word: laxness
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Consumer advocate Stuart Rado, a Miami Beach businessman who lost $3,500 to an overseas-job firm in 1981, blames the government for lax policing. "The FTC is impotent to do anything. People don't know where to complain," he says. In the past six months, however, the state attorney general's office has filed civil suit against four companies, including the now defunct Roblan, and is investigating four more firms for deceptive trade practices. Last month the FTC filed a complaint against another Florida operator, the Douglas Co., for allegedly deceiving clients about jobs in sunny foreign climes...
...with Darci and Darly's escape from prison last Monday, Brazil's western frontier has regained its reputation for lawlessness. Despite repeated warnings that lax security made a jailbreak all but inevitable, state and federal government officials paid no attention. Once again, rubber tappers fear more violence. "This place could turn into a war zone," warned Gumercindo Rodrigues of the Xapuri Rural Workers' Union. Inundated with protests from environmental groups, the Brazilian government vowed to recapture the gunmen. "They'll never find them," predicted Mendes' widow Ilzamar, who accused local authorities of complicity in the escape. A police manhunt...
...revolutionary, but a savvy politician--and an extraordinary speaker--alternatively lambasting a lax College administration when it slows its race relations efforts and allying with campus leaders to build consensus and to handle crisis...
...whole, it is undeniable that the Prep School is undergoing a transformation. The stereotypes still apply to many prep schools, but the trend is unmistakable. Andover's disciplinary policies have become the most lax of the New England prep schools, and the dinosaurs in the faculty are becoming an endangered species...
...investigated but found no wrongdoing. Justice officials claim that the documents were merely duplicates of classified material. But the outcry over the shredding is illustrative of the intrigue and suspicion that currently consume the Justice Department. In recent years the agency has been rife with controversy over allegedly lax investigations, secret political motives, cover-ups and general malfeasance. Under Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the Justice Department gained a reputation, among Republicans and Democrats alike, as the most thoroughly politicized and ethically compromised department in the government...