1.   And on Thursday, the Senate is to convene its second hearing to examine accusations of lax government oversight of gene therapy research.

2.   Pittle believes the confusion lies with lax government testing guidelines.

3.   To achieve stability, Brazil must find a more sensible tax structure, get better control of fiscally lax state governments and reform its public pensions.

4.   Opposition lawmakers say much of the defaulted debt was the result of insider lending, corrupt practices and lax government supervision.

5.   Several people testified at a public hearing Friday that land has been stolen from them by unscrupulous individuals aided by lax government record-keeping.