1.   Companies from both east and west have benefited from the lax rules.

2.   Hence the lax rules about sewage sludge, irradiation, and genetically engineered foods.

3.   Hevesi said his findings showed that city agencies had lax rules for insuring that workers had valid licenses, thereby threatening safety and causing payouts from lawsuits to rise.

4.   It hoped to get the state to approve relatively lax rules that would supersede the local ones.

5.   Lax rules were blamed for a trading scandal that closed down the Greek equities market for three days in November.

6.   Lax trading rules and illegal speculation were blamed for touching off a scandal that closed down the Greek equities market for three days in November.

7.   PRESIDENT Bush seemed to brush off worries about lax Canadian rules on immigration last week, but it remains a concern in US-Canadian relations.

8.   So far Harvey Pitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has failed to propose any meaningful reform in the lax rules that made Enron possible.

9.   Some Orthodox leaders believe the more lax rules adopted by the Reform and other Jewish movments is undermining the faith by promoting assimilation and intermarriage.

10.   States with relatively lax rules, like Oregon and Pennsylvania, become havens for laundered vehicle titles, cleaned through reregistration.