Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prince Edward County also had some leeway. Since the Supreme Court ruling on the subject of tuition grants limited itself to pronouncing them illegal when part of a school-closedown program, county supervisors could presumably reopen the public schools for Negroes and any whites who wanted to attend -and then resume their old practice of providing funds to help the white-only foundation schools. To settle this issue will take another long battle through the state and federal courts...
Experts not only get more leeway than other witnesses, they also get paid. Fees may run from $100 to more than $300 a day, plus expenses. Doctors and psychiatrists may pull down $50 an hour on the witness stand, along with their fee for pretrial examinations and tests. In the Ruby trial, Guttmacher and Schafer are getting about $1,000 each. Such fees take into account ex tensive pretrial preparation; but as Atlanta Trial Lawyer Charles D. Read Jr. pointed out: "A real fine expert comes high...
...heads of three other large, lower-level courses--Soc Sci 1, Ec 1, and English 10--confirmed that it was a general practice to inform section men what the range of grades had been in the past. The individual instructors, however, have bad considerable leeway in the number of honor grades which could be awarded...
...even governmental presence in the banking structure, as suggested above, would represent an "indirect" approach to achieving full employment. Direct action entails government participation in the economy as a capitalizer, and would require a political and financial leeway which the Congressional right-wing has not granted the Administration unless defense contracts were being issued...
...dormitories having strict penalties, girls tend to sign out far beyond the hour they actually return, leaving themselves a two or three-hour leeway. "Obviously," Miss Schrader said, "one can be kidnapped at midnight but would not be missed until four or five...