Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What seems to distinguish the new drive from the old Great Leap, however, is its flexibility. There has been some advance planning, and there appear to be no rigid output targets. In fact, Peking is admonishing local officials to "leave enough leeway." Though not too much, of course. The goal of the latest campaign, as Shanghai radio explained it recently, is "a fruit that can be picked by jumping and reaching up, not a fruit that can be taken by stretching out one's arm from a lying or sitting position...
...fuselage make window seats rather cramped, even though the seats themselves are 34 in. wide, compared with 22 in. for a Boeing 747. Fully loaded, the Concorde will be able to cover about 4,000 miles, and Paris-New York is a 3,700-mile flight. That leaves no leeway for meeting international standards, which call for a 25% fuel-safety margin. Either the Concorde's range will have to be extended or the plane will have to be restricted to lighter loads...
...Nixon Administration thinks it has considerable leeway. It believes that no vital decisions must be made in the next few months, at least, that would commit the U.S. irrevocably to further nuclear escalation. During this period, a determination can be made whether broad-scale talks with the Russians are feasible...
...nation's real economic growth slowed to practically nothing for one or two quarters, the result would be only a 0.2% rise in the jobless rate, now at a 15-year low of 3.3%. The findings reinforce the belief that the Nixon Administration will have a bit of leeway in which to move against wage-price rises without causing a significant increase in unemployment. But Brimmer and the other Federal Reserve governors believe that "some increase" in the jobless rolls will be unavoidable in a successful fight against inflation...
...hints whatsoever, allowing his pupils to expect a repeat of the hourly. The boom was lowered, howeven, when Crumgold's assistant and grader, Father O'Malley, distributed the six-page exam with its three dozen identifications all drawn from the lectures. Dr. Crumgold allowed the god priest full leeway as to grading, with the result that every student passed; not one walked away from that course indifferent to the dangers of overconfidence...