Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting of the National Security Planning Group, an informal panel of top advisers that deliberates with the President on major foreign policy and national security questions. After hearing the arguments from both sides, Reagan chose to steer a center course, but one that will leave him with little leeway to make new proposals for arms control. He decided against offering any specifics to the Soviets at this time, which State Department moderates had been advocating as a way of drawing the Kremlin back to the bargaining table. This was in line with Reagan's tendency over the past...
...decision gives police officers more leeway in determing whether the evidence constitutes just cause for search and seizure and frees him or her from responsibility for bad decisions. The Supreme Court, moreover, has given great latitude to magistrates; judges will no longer be held responsible for their decision to grant a warrant and they will have the authority to interpret "good faith." Those justices who support the narrowing of the exclusionary rule did not understand its two-pronged purpose: it puts a check on both police and judge, making them both responsible for proving there is just cause for search...
...think they treat the course in the summertime with a lot more leeway," says the soon-to-be high school senior...
...very good year for prosecutors and police as the U.S. Supreme Court sliced away at various precedents to give more leeway to law enforcement. In completing its work for the term, the court last week handed down 19 decisions, including what one law professor called "a real get-out-of-town" ruling on a major Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure issue. Overshadowing their other opinions on such matters as women's rights and free speech, the Justices did what law officials had long hoped for and what civil libertarians had feared. For the first time they created a "good...
Officials said they considered Putnam's major acheivement as treasurer the establishment of the Management Company, which handles the University's $2.5 billion endowment, and in giving the company leeway...