When you're comfortable in a relationship, you might be more lax about security on these devices.

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In rich countries they are often inconsistent: too strict about some sorts of waste and worryingly lax about others.

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If you want to talk about senseless deaths, consider that nearly 100, 000 lives are lost in the US each year simply because medical personnel are lax about washing their hands.

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Others who are lax about calibration and controls as they rush to publish can fall prey to the temptation to cherry pick data to advance their careers by presenting a breakthrough finding.

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Reformers like Patch have demanded that regulators and market operators do their jobs of enforcing existing rules and have expressed exasperation about seemingly lax oversight.

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Some entrepreneurs blame their lax attitude on knowing too much about their employees.

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The case, however, speaks volumes about California's lax campaign-finance laws (surely it is a little absurd to allow insurance commissioners to raise money from insurers), and also about Mr Quackenbush's lack of judgment.

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In America, critics worry about the number of unexamined packages pouring into ports, and lax security at chemical plants.

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The agency says the men painted a positive picture of Countrywide's risk management and underwriting practices and made optimistic statements about its business prospects to investors while privately acknowledging that risk management was lax, losses were mounting and the business faced a bleak future.

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