Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government and private enterprise. In spite of the fact that the state is often a "bad loser and a poor employer" when it undertakes the functions of the entrepreneur in industrial projects, he advocates an increase in the amount of control exercised by the state, but with still enough leeway left to private employers to exercise that imagination and foresight which has been so instrumental in the development of the great modern industrial nations, especially the United States. He pointed to the economic systems of Britain and Scandinavia as "the sound conception of the relation of the state...
...Civil List raised the King's household salaries and pensions $115,000 to $670,000; cut his household expenses $94,000 to $764,000; allowed $66,000 for charity. The usual $100,000 for repairs and $35,500 for "leeway" were abolished...
...definition before the Associated Harvard Clubs a year age leaves a good deal of leeway. "It seems to me," he said, "that it will probably be more true in the future than it has been in the past that unless a university teacher is himself a live person and has an intelligent life of his own in which he is carrying on some sort of research, some sort of writing, some sort of scholarship, he will not be a teacher for mature students...
...Treasury could not replace with new issues some $12,000,000,000 of Government bonds that have been retired or refunded since 1917. And while Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau still had more than $8,000,000,000 to go before reaching the limit on short-term issues, his leeway on long-term bonds was only...
...shoulder. Anyone in anyway acquainted with Harvard athletics knows that Mr. Bingham and the varsity coaches have cooperated splendidly. Both are needed--and there has been no usurpation of powers. The football coach has always chosen his own assistants just as he wished to. He has been given great leeway and there has been no sign of dictation...