Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason the government has allowed Renault such leeway is that it must face competition on the world market. Notes one Renault executive: "I doubt that a purely domestic company would have enjoyed the same benign neglect...
Peking officials, though, are determined to make successes out of the SEZS, and they have accepted some needed reforms. Government bureaucrats are yielding more and more management control to the visiting capitalists, who can now name their own local bosses in some instances. Soon foreign managers will have the leeway to hire and fire workers. Output was dismal at the Electrical & Electronics Ltd. appliance plant until Owner Y.K. Chen insisted on bringing in his own supervisors to direct the operation. The factory is now run by Yip Shao-Chen, 24, a woman from the ranks of the assembly line...
...give them general-purpose block grants rather than money ear marked by Congress for specific uses. These block grants were to be the cornerstone of Reagan's "quiet federalist revolution," in which power would gradually be transferred from overblown federal agencies to state and local authorities. Given greater leeway and less red tape in using federal funds, the Governors were confident that the states could absorb cut backs of 10% without trimming services...
...first remarkable thing about this film is it's air of lazy progress. Cutter and Bone know each other so well that very little is set up in the usual Hollywood ways. In some respects, they have no sacred cows--Cutter's cynicism gives him the leeway to breach any subject, from the sexual tension between him, a cripple, Bone, the stud, and Maureen, the long-suffering wife, and yet still stay within the realm of a "joke." Cutter is immensely likable, immensely smart, and you realize that what's different here is that very rarely have we seen characters...
...herds, dairy farmers last year added 72,000 milk cows, even though the only market for the extra output was the Government. When the dairy program comes up for a four-year renewal vote in Congress some time before Sept. 30, the Reagan Administration is planning to push for leeway to drop dairy-support prices to 70% of parity, or even lower if especially large surpluses occur...