Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesson properly taken from that incident was not that the U.S. was too vulnerable to remain, but rather that new rules of engagement were needed to allow ship captains more leeway to defend their crews against hostile forces...
Gesell said that "any defendant should have considerable leeway to use indirectly...and possibly directly immunized testimony while defending the charges against...
...Mark A. Peterson, faculty in the departmenthave had an increasingly difficult time findingenough University graduate students to teachsections. "It is a tough situation we face now,"Peterson says. "Our demand and supply situation isso out of sorts...that flexibility is limited anda professor often doesn't have as much leeway ashe or she would like" when hiring a teachingassistant...
...exhibiting more fidelity to the facts. The Trial of Bernhard Goetz, airing this week on PBS's American Playhouse series, dramatizes the trial of New York City's subway gunman, with all the dialogue taken directly from court transcripts. But the literal approach is oddly unsettling; without any artistic leeway, the actors (including Peter Crombie as Goetz) seem merely pale imitations of their real-life counterparts...
...senior U.S. official. "They seldom mention SDI at all; instead they talk about strengthening the ((1972)) ABM treaty. Now, it may be that their real aim is to cripple SDI, and if so, no sale. But maybe we are seeing an evolution of their position that will provide leeway" for a compromise permitting SDI research and some testing while delaying deployment...