Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member proposed an amendment that had been voted down at an earlier meeting; another suggested changing a clause granting summa candidates some leeway in their freshman year--a clause that has always been part of the honors rules...
Before today's vote, Pipkin and Dean Whitlock will propose that the two-thirds requirement be reduced to one half the completed courses outside the field. This change would not be a return to the leniency of the present regulations, but it would leave some leeway for students to take a few pass/fail courses without endangering their chances for honors...
...year leaves: the first to work as an aide to President Nixon, the second to serve as Ambassador to India. He had only been back one semester when he took the U.N. job. Harvard is insistent on "institutional loyalty," says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "There would be not much leeway with anyone, particularly someone like Moynihan who had shown a somewhat tenuous or peripatetic relationship to the institution."* Though he did not mention it, Moynihan may also run for the Senate. He had once said it would be "dishonorable" for him to desert the U.N. to go into politics...
...city manager, who has direct control of the civil service, the police and the treasury. (The school system is administered separately by an elected school committee.) The council can only "request" the city manager to take action, not order him to do so, giving him a lot of leeway in administering the city. But the manager mustn't permanently alienate a majority of the city council: it does have the power to remove him from office, a fate city managers usually face only when an election changes the political alignments of the council...
...Ruth has never been to Samoa. But he is sure his experience as dean of students at Catawba College in his home state will help him supervise the 28,000 Polynesians in his jurisdiction. He plans to be "firm but at the same time give the people all the leeway possible...