Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead of imposing it on you," Ralph Zito '81, who plays a leading role in the production, says. "You watch for a spontaneous revelation," Havergal says, "a moment when something in the text will give them a clue or a bridge to cross." "He gives you a lot of leeway," Aquino agrees. "It seemed like the play came out of us. If we're not comfortable with a piece of blocking, Giles will say, 'By all means, change it,' and then he'll watch us and let us know if it's all right...
...river stands between us," said a young skeptic named Sam. "What can we do?" But He was not worried, for He had already crossed the Glen and was still Fine. He knew, as he sat on his mule, its front Hoofs dug in water, that He still had leeway. So He turned around and spoke to the swelling number of friends who had gathered for phase two of the miracle...
There are, however, serious flaws in the Marxist-Leninist economic system. Communist countries say they have abolished unemployment?but at the cost of heavily overstaffing every office and factory with workers who seldom can be fired for failing to produce. Bureaucratic controls further cripple efficiency, and managers have little leeway for innovation. Consumer goods are still shoddy and chronically scarce. Long lines form immediately in Warsaw, Prague, Havana, Moscow and other Communist cities at rumors that a shop is about to receive a shipment of such coveted goods as shoes, fresh fish or fruit. Communist leaders boast that their citizens...
...addition, students would have greater leeway in experiencing higher level courses than allowed for in the limited number of electives students will face under the proposal. Students also could, in this way, fill core requirements with various desired full courses. Furthermore, this type of bypass would provide the equivalent of second exemptions for interdisciplinary concentrators, who now only have...
...front line held. On Wednesday Congress voted through a measure that calls for medical schools to increase their third-year class sizes next year by 5 per cent, but gives the schools broad leeway in choosing the transfer students who will fill those places...