Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attacks this position in his book. He reasons that just as the framers of the Constitution did not want the president to possess excessive power over Congress, they did not want to give Congress too great a power over the executive. Consequently, the framers would not allow Congress the leeway to define the legal conditions for impeachment however it might please...
...they likely to be made. As outside sources of funding, such as the Federal government, continue to dry up, the financial burden that the endowment will have to bear is bound to grow. And as this burden grows, the leeway for considering any factors outside of profit maximization is shrinking. Like a high-speed racing car ignoring the pollutants with which it fouls the air, Harvard will probably continue an investment policy designed to amass capital and provide income without regard for social consequences. Harvard's Top Ten Investments shares market value...
...elementary beginning," writes Frankel, legislators do not really tell judges the objectives of punishing or what the punishment should be. Thus judges typically have only broad guidelines: "not more than 25 years"; "from five years to life." In theory, says Frankel, this is supposed to give judges necessary leeway to fit the punishment to the offender, not merely to the crime. In fact, however, it allows "sentences to be 'individualized' not so much in terms of defendants, but mainly in terms of the wide spectrums of character, bias, neurosis and daily vagary encountered among occupants of the trial...
Many Faculty members favor merit-based grants. Department chairman, in fact, objected to the Kraus plan because it afforded them little leeway in granting this type of award. They say such grants are necessary to insure that the most capable students decide to come here for graduate work, and explain that if Harvard drops the grants the GSAS will be at a bidding disadvantage with other universities...
...issue has also developed antagonisms between House Masters and the Administration over who has the responsibility--both planning and financial--for installing security precautions. Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for Administration, blames the Masters for dragging their feet on security, but they unanimously counter that House budgets allow no leeway for security expenses...