Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much money is spent to what time the classes are given. There are no "intermediate institutions"-no student-faculty committees which can often muffle and absorb a conflict as at Harvard. If anything goes wrong it is brought straight to the ministry. In a system with such little leeway for evolution, any change was a radical change and any serious challenge liable to topple everything...
...decentralized character of Harvard, solutions to many of the problems we have noted lie within the grasp of each of the faculties. Debate within them has already given rise to various efforts at reform. Both the statutes and the traditions of the University permit each of the faculties broad leeway in determining how it should function, consistently with Harvard's fundamental commitment to academic excellence...
...hints whatsoever, allowing his pupils to expect a repeat of the hourly. The boom was lowered, however, 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 good priest full leeway as to the grading, with the result that every student passed; not one walked away from that course indifferent to the dangers of overconfidence...
...hints whatsoever, allowing his pupils to expect a repeat of the hourly. The boom was lowered, however, 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 good priest full leeway as to the grading, with the result that every student passed; not one walked away from that course indifferent to the dangers of overconfidence...
...from the process. Bill Moyers raised the fear of a President's "surrendering his decision-making authority to the computers and the junior military officers who stand over them." Foster retorted that by offering some degree of protection to U.S. offensive missiles, Safeguard would give the President more leeway than he might otherwise enjoy before launching a counterstrike against the adversary's homeland. "I don't want to give Safeguard up for some trigger-happy system where you have to salvo all our Minuteman missiles," he said. On the crucial issue of whether the U.S. can preserve...