Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal would have given foreign governments more leeway in chasing those who hide their proceeds in secret accounts. Whenever tax and currency violations are suspected, authorities from other countries could obtain information about an account. Switzerland has long contended it is not obliged to help governments investigate cases involving currency transactions or tax evasion, since these are not crimes in Switzerland...
...stereotype that Asians are only able to think narrowly is based on one quotation from one engineering professor at Houston. This stereotype assumes that technical areas allow no leeway for creativity. But who is to say that synthesis of a new chemical compound is less creative than the synthesis of a new social science theory? In addition, Newsweek on Campus virtually disregards Asian humanities and social science concentrators. UCLA's Valerie Soe is displayed in a picture captioned "Exception: UCLA's Soe is 'lousy at math.'" The implication seems to be that Asian-American non-science majors are so rare...
...College grants the Masters great leeway; they are not accountable, in any formal way, to any higher body in College administration, Entrusted with the responsibility for their students well-being, Masters seem unwilling to share that responsibility with others--including the students themselves...
...Party Control Commission. The plenum confirmed the importance of the KGB in inner Kremlin councils by elevating the KGB chief, General Victor Chebrikov, 60, to candidate membership in the Politburo. Yegor Ligachev, 63, a technocrat from Siberia who shares Andropov's concern for economic discipline, was given greater leeway in controlling party personnel appointments, making him one of the most powerful officials in the Secretariat...
...enthused about it," Murray said. But he was won over in part by the substantial leeway he believed the commission would have in exploring the catastrophe. "It wasn't a commission whose job it was to say that everything was O.K., but rather a commission that looked at the circumstances and said what it honestly found to be the case...