Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposition Tory and C.C.F. (Socialist) parties, which have been accusing the Liberal government of giving too much leeway to U.S. investors, reacted angrily to the proposal to lend tax funds to a U.S.-controlled firm. Both parties immediately launched a filibuster to delay the bill. The government's main reason for backing the U.S. firm is that Trans-Canada has pipe and equipment on hand to begin work immediately. A national election is expected next year, and the Canadian public, the Liberals believe, is more interested in seeing the long-stalled pipeline built than in worrying about the nationality...
...dead reckoning that oldtime sailors used in bad weather when they could not shoot the sun has a modern counterpart "in Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s recently announced long-range air navigation system. The sailors estimated their speed, leeway and the effect of ocean currents to give them their rough position. The Ryan Automatic Navigator does much the same thing by making a fix on some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing...
...million tax-loss carry-forward, and "one of the best technical groups in the business." Bunker freely admitted that he knew nothing about airplanes, but he did know about good management, which was Martin's sorest need. He boosted morale by giving his top-management men leeway to make their own decisions, thus speeded up lagging production. To reward them, Bunker set up plans for bonuses and stock options. (Bunker himself has a $1.4 million paper profit on the option he got to buy 70,000 shares of Martin stock at $9.75 a share...
Since the Army tries to keep its ROTC program uniform, Dupuy said, it might be difficult to find suitable textbooks under the new plan. At present the Army allows a 25 percent leeway in selecting texts...
...they are in short supply west of the Iron Curtain or believed to be very useful to the Red war machine. Under the Battle Act. passed in 1951, the U.S cannot give aid to any friendly country that ships items on this list. The act gives the Administration considerable leeway in enforcement...