Word: leniently
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...achieve any noteworthy successes. The Rumsfeldian fracas over up-armored Humvees—which failed to appear in any appreciable quantity in the Iraqi theater of operations until more than four years after the beginning of combat operations—is just one example of how poor management and lenient oversight at the Pentagon have cost the American military millions of dollars and thousands of unnecessary casualties. Carter’s appointment also represents an opportunity for policymakers to update our procurement priorities for the conflicts of the 21st century. Despite the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed nearly...
...many of those condos and McMansions are now homes for little more than the ghosts of greed and stupidity. Federal Housing Administration loans, which have more lenient credit and down-payment requirements, can help some low-income buyers scoop up some of those units. "But most of those homes will never be available to the people we serve," insists Lloyd Boggio, a Miami developer and chairman of the Florida Coalition of Affordable Housing Providers. Some communities are using federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds to buy up foreclosed homes and convert them into rental units, but they say it's hardly...
...confession led the military to the suburban house where they dug up the bodies he had mentioned. Cobo was eventually sent to a civilian prison, where he awaits his court date on organized crime charges. Federal prosecutors declined to comment on whether his cooperation will lead to a more lenient sentence...
...leather was widely shared: Iraq may have more of a future now than it did under Saddam, but Iraqis are never going to be grateful for having been invaded. (It's unclear what will become of al-Zaidi, but Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will undoubtedly be more lenient than Saddam would have been...
That’s not to say Harvard should be taxed at standard corporate tax rates and its funds be deposited into the government’s general accounts. One good compromise would tax the endowment at a lenient rate and use the funding exclusively for public higher education. Such a program would redirect a sliver Harvard’s income in a way that would still, in Faust’s words, “enable students and faculty of both today and tomorrow to search for new knowledge...