Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smart hucksters selling paintings in New York City and London, only a handful of painters manage to make a living from their art. Many turn to editorial and advertising work. They may be painters manque, but talented art directors and designers are more indulged and permitted more expressive leeway in Japan than in most other countries. Much of their work, even for big corporations, is highly unorthodox. At train stations in Tokyo last year, commuters could not avoid a meditation on androgyny, in the form of huge prints of a man's face superimposed on a woman's; the only...
...prohibitions against abortion. "What they're going to have," says UCLA Law Professor Julian Eule, "is cases that deal with a variety of obstacles to abortion that the states have constructed. Therefore, what the court would do, rather than say, 'We abandon Roe v. Wade,' is to allow increasing leeway to states to regulate the parameters of the right to an abortion." More regulation would undoubtedly mean fewer abortions...
Lauren is acutely profit conscious. But since the only shareholders he needs to please are himself and Strom, he has leeway to experiment and to pursue a sometimes whimsical strategy. "I don't have a master plan," he says. "It gets more complicated as it grows." So far, Lauren's whimsy has been highly accurate in locating successful commercial opportunities. Says Strom: "I had no idea it would go like this. I remember saying to myself, 'If this business ever hits $20 million, I'll retire.' But I keep upping the stakes...
...President Georges Pompidou, who was so impressed by Chirac's seemingly indefatigable capacity for work that he called him "my bulldozer." After Pompidou's death in 1974, Chirac backed Giscard's candidacy for President. A grateful Giscard rewarded him with the premiership. Believing that he was not allowed enough leeway to carry out his economic policies, Chirac resigned in August 1976 and formed his own party, Rally for the Republic. The following year he was elected mayor of Paris. An able and efficient administrator who regularly puts in 15-hour days, Chirac was overwhelmingly re-elected...
...Currier House, with $12,000 to play with, "we have more leeway for student's creativity," says Ramirez...