Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They were always reminding me of what I should be doing," he says of his parents, who attended Harvard and Vassar respectively. "I had a lot of freedom and a lot of leeway to do what I wanted, but still they had to make sure that I was coming back and doing my homework, getting into a good college, going to Harvard...
...Rosovsky now says, the language in the original report was intentionally vague about how the concentration would be structured. Rosovsky says the intent was to allow the standing committee leeway in determining its future course...
There is a reason that the press is afforded such leeway--leeway which law enforcement officials do not have. The fourth estate has an important role in the political process of the United States, as a kind of watchdog over officials and institutions. The press is expected to scrutinize what public officials do not, and therefore must be allowed greater investigative freedom...
...first question is easier to answer: no one knows how far is too far, certainly not with any precision, perhaps not even the Soviets. "Gorbachev has given his clients considerable leeway," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a research fellow at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs. "But he does not seem to have a carefully thought-through policy for the longer term. It is a dreadful double problem: how to open the floodgates without letting too much water rush...
Judges have traditionally enjoyed such leeway in meting out jail terms that one prisoner could serve many times as long as another for a similar crime. Concerned about unfair -- and often overly lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges' discretion in sentencing 40,000 federal defendants a year. The new system, for crimes committed since Nov. 1, 1987, also abolished parole and sharply limited probation and time off for good behavior...