Word: lenient
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...need a Pope who would bend to its questionable secular values. What is necessary is to have leaders who will stand up for what's right and fight for the morals of God's timeless word. Each generation has lowered the bar a little further and been more lenient than the previous generation. It's time we raise our standards again. No one said it would be easy, but everything of value comes at a price...
...challenges the conventional wisdom, it says that men and women of the same height should weigh roughly the same. This relaxed attitude toward weight gain does not find favor with the medical establishment. The American Heart Association has stated that it finds even the 1983 Metropolitan Life table too lenient. Obesity researchers at the National Institutes of Health say that weights 20% higher than the Metropolitan midpoints are hazardous. Says Dr. Robert F. Kushner, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago: "We don't have anything to gain health-wise by allowing elderly patients to put on another...
...result of the legal deal, the names of her 3,000 clients, ranging from Arab princes to U.S. corporate kings, will remain secret. Barrows suggested in a news conference that her power ful patrons had pressured Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau into the lenient agreement. Her attorney termed the decision a "kiss on the wrist." Barrows depicted herself as a Robin Hood, who by plea bargaining had saved "a lot of innocent people" from being exposed...
...laws pass, the FCC's Martin is likely to be aggressive with them. In the past, he criticized some decisions during Powell's tenure as too lenient--such as not fining Fox for the horse-prostitute liaison on Keen Eddie--and called for fines not only to be stiffer but also to be assessed "per utterance," not per incident (one unbleeped Dave Chappelle routine, and you're in the poorhouse). He also wants to restore the "family hour" to prime time. Decency advocates are big fans. "He can send the signal that the agency has to get serious," says Bozell...
...then judges have argued that Republican politicians--always eager to look tough on crime--have been tightening guidelines and further chipping away at their prized independence. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Sensenbrenner once threatened to subpoena a federal district judge's records to see whether he had been too lenient, and a year later, Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered federal prosecutors to report judges who were similarly showing too much forgiveness...