Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leeway. The Democrats will doubtless try to sharpen the contrast. Both Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy professed satisfaction at the prospect of running against a Nixon-Agnew ticket, although Humphrey had more reason to be happy. Had the Republicans picked Nelson Rockefeller, the temptation for the Democrats to desert their front runner would have been greater...
Nixon, as the challenger, will have considerable leeway in shaping the debate. He may choose to capitalize primarily on the sour mood of the moment, or he may choose a more positive, upbeat approach. He may shuttle between the relatively conservative and relatively liberal lines. He is in a good position to take any course, for so far, at least, he has retained an uncommon degree of flexibility. Nothing in the platform, nothing he himself has said, binds him in an unalterable position. Within a few weeks the nation should be able to see how Richard Nixon intends...
Harvard's rules on academic policy allow considerable leeway, and so it is seldom that departments bring their affairs to the full Faculty. When questions of policy or appointments arise within a department, the senior members (those with permanent rank) make the decisions. The departments always initiate recommendations for appointments within their discipline. These decisions are rubberstamped by the Dean and Governing Boards when non-permanent Faculty members are concerned; decisions on permanent status are usually subject to favorable review by ad hoc committees, consisting of scholars outside the nominating department and appointed by the Dean. The Corporation (the President...
...Manila Conference of 1966, President Johnson pledged to withdraw U.S. troops within six months if "the other side withdraws its forces to the North, ceases infiltration and the level of violence thus subsides." The last phrase is enough of a hedge to provide quite a bit of leeway. The U.S. still has 50,000 troops in Korea, and is likely to keep at least twice as many in South Viet Nam for two to ten years...
That great big hole in the ground near Kimberley gives Harry Oppenheimer, 58, chairman of the board of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., a leeway of personal expression unknown to most South Africans. Taking on the additional job of chancellor of multiracial Cape Town University, which numbers 266 blacks and Coloreds among its 6,392 students, the powerful diamond king coolly defended "the right of the university to run its own affairs"-despite the Vorster government's intensified campaign to force apartheid in all campus extracurricular activities. Said Oppenheimer: "What is the use of a civilization...