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I seem to recall laxing educational standards, social promotions, and other "dumbing down" tools in our public schools achieving the same sort've outstanding results for our public education systems.
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Everyone got drunk on cheap oil, and corporations encouraged the laxing of standards since the pain of 1973 was a distant memory.
Waldo Jaquith - An illustration of the size of our nuclear arsenal. 2007
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We're not just a generation of girls living off our daddy's credit cards and boys only interested in "sweet laxing."
Lindsay Dittman: Not Just a Bunch of "Stupid Girls" -- Education and the Next Generation 2008
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I'm 'laxing in the pool of words called Merriam Webster's Collegiate dictionary.
Varia The Daily Growler 2006
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I am very happy to see that there is a stable dim sum spot just a few minutes away from my house. ...or do you think it's just that my standards are 'laxing?
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I am very happy to see that there is a stable dim sum spot just a few minutes away from my house. ...or do you think it's just that my standards are 'laxing?
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Perhaps it is worth noting for younger readers that at the time the "*=things" were created, and the Heap was brought back to publication, there was a resurgence of horror comics due to a laxing of the comics code restrictions that banned depictions of the undead.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #3! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2005
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If the Scripture therefore in many places, if the Apostles, Councils, Popes, and the Saints and Doctors do advise us to daily communion, without limitation or laxing, and if there be no Law divine or humane to forbid it to him that has no mortal sin to hinder him, what is the reason that the
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Though outwardly everything seemed normal, Buck noticed a slight restlessness and laxing tension about the men that morning.
Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames 1903
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The laxing of mark-to-market rules allows the bank to increase leverage on its books by artificially inflating the capital position.
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