Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most selective colleges have greater leeway to emphasize personal qualities than schools that admit most of their applicants, the study's co-author and ETS researcher Warren H. Willingham said...
McNerney worked out after the match, using the one-pound leeway to get within the lower weight class, under 143 lbs: immediately afterwards, he boarded the already late bus and the team departed for Columbia. But no official witnessed his second informal weight-in-this one at under 143-lbs.--and that proved fatal for Harvard...
...Andre's sheer determination to spread his gospel of the surreal eggs Wally on to respond. It's hard to know exactly what sets him off. Perhaps, he perceives in Andre's calm mellifluous tone a lack of confidence that gives him leeway to speak up loudly and clearly. And that's just how Wally responds, with a diatribe of his own, against the unnecessarily highbrow. The world for him is real, with cockroaches, and stale coffee, and if the cockroaches stay out of his coffee, he'll be happy. He huffs and sputters, but he says what...
...since 1945, presidents have handled foreign policy decision-making in either of two ways. Some presidents--Kennedy, for example--have taken an active interest in foreign policy and become in effect, their own Secretaries of State. The second way presidents have used is allowing their Secretaries of State considerable leeway in managing foreign affairs. The Eisenhower administration, when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had a virtual green light to carry out this country's international relations, illustrates this method...
...petition means [professors] have to do some work" to secure exceptions, Verba said, adding that some leeway is necessary because "there's no rule you can ever write in the University that doesn't allow exceptions...