Federal Reserve laxness in setting low interest rates allowed a housing bubble to form.

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Contrast the laxness of a federal agency with the alacrity of Subway in responding to public opinion.

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This laxness has been an invitation for voter fraud in a growing number of areas around the country.

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"I don't want to blame the revolution for everything, but the laxness started with the revolution, " he said.

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GDP, a far cry from the fiscal laxness of a few years ago.

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Both agree that the euro zone's problems have been caused by the laxness of countries that piled up debt and lost competitiveness.

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As annoying as Facebook has been with its laxness when it comes to our privacy, we still have a lot of control on the site.

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There is no doubting the sincerity of the Israeli government's bitter resentment of what it insists is Mr Arafat's laxness in taking on Hamas and other militant Islamists.

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Michael Martin, the incumbent until June 21st, was inept, but it was his refusal to tackle or even to air publicly the laxness of the allowances system that did for him.

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That is because the laxness or otherwise of national regimes is only one factor determining where asylum-seekers make their claims: family and cultural ties, work opportunities and language are just as important.

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