Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson said the Combined Charities Committee, appointed by the Council, struck the Experiment from their tentative list mainly because the Council had voted to equalize the ratio between national and international charities with a leeway of one charity...
...week's end, President Truman called Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson down to Key West to talk over the problem. The Government had some leeway; the steel industry was owed a price increase, of perhaps $2 a ton, under the Capehart Amendment allowing for post-Korean cost rises up to July 1951. The question was how much higher to go above that. The steel companies were scheduled this week to resume direct negotiations with the union, broken off in December. But the talks would probably just mark time until Truman and Wilson decided how big the steel price increase...
...foremost problem that interviewers had to surmount was the scope and method of the interview itself. This was solved by giving four separate interviews to allow leeway for personal opinions, bias, and other psychological intrusions...
Although Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the administrative vice-President, who represented the University, asked for a deadline extension only through August 1, the Board decided to allow an extra month leeway...
Gatica, who was already in disfavor with the consulate, got hurry-up orders, and at week's end was back in Argentina. Brión was granted a few weeks' leeway, got an ordinary visitor's visa, and planned to try one more fight before going home...