Word: leniently
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...will never know whether Harvard students, whose distaste for student government is seemingly pervasive, would agree to serve on an all-student disciplinary committee; whether such a committee's votes would be more harsh or more lenient than a Faculty CRR; whether students would accept the judgment of their peers. And these are the intrigues of University democracy...
...commission recommended a lenient stance on contraception, but the Pope, in a startling twist of logic, rejected the report because it went against what the church had previously maintained. Why did he set up a commission in the first place if it could not come up with any new findings? The Pope seemed to be subscribing to the "Galileo syndrome which demands that any error made by church authority must be sustained by a thousand subsequent and reinforcing errors, each more egregious as reality becomes ever harder to oppose...
...image leads him to exclude many of the factors that have given rise to such an environment. He relishes the effects and ignores the causes. And his pleas to the reader to let him analyze his images to the exclusion of social issues only make it harder to be lenient...
...pilots are equally concerned about the absence of international agreement on how to deal with skyjackers. They are particularly annoyed at Britain and France, which have taken a relatively lenient attitude toward hijackers and have opposed the use of sky marshals because of the danger of a shootout in the air. British policy places top priority on the safety of the passengers and calls for pilots to comply with hijackers' demands whenever possible. The pilots are also disturbed by the casual attitude of the Italian government, which did not get around to drawing up a bill making skyjacking illegal...
...just that. His biggest job would be to police the efforts of the individual states, which would be directly in charge of the cleanup. The states would issue permits, written to meet EPA standards, specifying limits on every plant that discharges wastes into waterways. If a state is too lenient with a polluter-violations can cost $25,000 a day (plus a year in jail for plant officials)-the EPA chief could intervene and even take over a state's entire water program...