1.   ...a damning picture of lax banking standards and unheeded warnings.

2.   California may be owed hundreds of millions of dollars in back royalty fees because of lax reporting standards in Washington.

3.   Cole, the Montague County district attorney, said the low pay and lax standards for guards have increased the risk of jail breakouts.

4.   Congressional Republicans last week scored plenty of political points by alleging that the White House has lax standards regarding drug use by its employees.

5.   Even by the lax standards of literary life, Frederic Exley was a slack, odious character.

6.   Even by the lax standards of our times, many of the items are tacky.

7.   He was, and remains, a frequent critic of lax standards in public education.

8.   It might still come in handy, considering how the City University of New York has endured withering criticism for lax standards, lazy students, and devalued degrees.

9.   It is gratifying to find a secretary of defense unwilling to settle for those lax standards.

10.   Lazio, campaigning on Long Island, responded by sharply questioning Clinton for having too lax a standard for U.S. intervention in foreign affairs.