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laissez-faire
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  • When it comes to wage rates, however, the company is remarkably silent and laissez-faire.†  (source)
  • By 1966, the warders had adopted a laissez-faire attitude: we could talk as much as we wanted as long as we worked.†  (source)
  • She seemed to have conditioned herself to a laissez-faire policy concerning me and my ill-disciplined class.†  (source)
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  • A laissez-faire policy is like spoiling a child by saying he'll turn out all right in the end.†  (source)
  • Four years later Van Buren had ridden to the White House on a promise to continue staying Old Hickory's course of democratic reforms and bold individualism, as well as a vow to implement a laissez faire policy toward business.†  (source)
  • The meat industry's allies at the USDA also seemed remarkably laissez-faire, noting that the contaminated hamburger patties had not violated any federal standards.†  (source)
  • Jurgis had not studied the books, and he would not have known how to pronounce "laissez faire"; but he had been round the world enough to know that a man has to shift for himself in it, and that if he gets the worst of it, there is nobody to listen to him holler.†  (source)
  • She is quite unprincipled; her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.†  (source)
  • That doctrine of laissez faire which so often in our history.†  (source)
  • It originated in France, as "Laissez faire à Georges," during the fifteenth century, and at the start had satirical reference to the multiform activities of Cardinal Georges d'Amboise, prime minister to Louis XII.†  (source)
  • Her laissez-faire approach to raising children is too much for me.†
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