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In general, aging skin tends to be thinner, laxer and more prone to fine wrinkles than young skin.

The rules must be global, ideally in the form of a new Basel regime, to prevent activity migrating to laxer countries.

Now it tends to be laxer but perpetually intrusive.

Other critics said it was cynically designed to reassure German voters that Europe's laxer economies would be held to account.

In contrast, secondary-school teachers can get a diploma from any one of 350 colleges, with laxer selection criteria.

With all the liquidity have come laxer lending standards.

Many factories and storage facilities date back to communist times, when environmental and safety standards were laxer than today.

Today they enjoy laxer accounting, loose collateral rules at central banks, explicit debt guarantees and asset-purchasing schemes.

Small firms will enjoy laxer rules on writing off expenses, and ailing firms will get rebates for taxes already paid.

In return the EU would offer a laxer visa regime and let Russian energy companies expand westwards more easily.

He has managed to instil a discipline that evaded his laxer predecessors, awing the players and the media and banishing the WAGs.

What happens if they start to migrate to another country where power is cheaper or regulation laxer?

The drop in arrests reflects not laxer enforcement, but stronger.

It also mandates a certain level of law-enforcement to prevent laxer jurisdictions from becoming cybercrime havens.

Laxer and more fragmented capital regimes allowed the balance-sheets of banks elsewhere to balloon (see chart 4).

How to prevent banks shopping around for laxer rules abroad?