Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council member, Shai M. Sachs '01 said, "I don't want to hear from the students on this issue." Blatant distrust in and disregard for the democratic process is fostered in the current council environment. Because members don't fear for their reelection, they have the leeway to disregard what students actually think and want...
...several suits against schools. "A lot of them are in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees freedom from unreasonable searches." Before police can legally search someone, they generally must have "probable cause" to believe the person has committed a crime. But courts have recently given schools wide leeway in searching lockers, cars and backpacks and administering drug tests even on a random basis. Permian High administrators, for example, periodically seal off hallways, order students to drop what they are carrying, then run the purses and backpacks through metal detectors...
...toilet, the government on Thursday announced a $51 million budget surplus. Yes, surplus. That bit of statistical good news ? which the government attributes to more efficient tax collection ? happened to coincide, as good news usually does, with decisions by the IMF and other creditors to extend a little leeway on debt repayment. "Different ministries are already quarreling about how real the surplus is because the budget was calculated at a much higher ruble-to-dollar rate," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "There certainly are some strong economic indicators on the positive side ? exports are up, imports are down...
...This is an important signal from an otherwise conservative court that some things will not be approved," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. Though the states have been given much leeway in making welfare harder to get, the court indicated today that one impermissible way is to create two classes of citizens based on length of residency. In the words of Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the court: "Citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, have the right to choose to be citizens of the State wherein they reside.... The States, however, do not have any right...
...addition to furnishing such general specifications, the MLN allows leeway for member libraries to develop their own guidelines for providing Web access to patrons...