Word: leeway
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...university towns like Cambridge, arrests and convictions for marijuana use and distribution tend to be much lower per capita then almost anywhere else in the country, he says, as private colleges are often given leeway to deal with marijuana issues internally...
...world where its operatives could interrogate them out of the reach of the U.S. legal system and human-rights organizations. But four years later, with about three dozen of al-Qaeda's most hard-core agents in CIA custody, America's new spy chief seems less enthusiastic about the leeway his operatives have had. At a secret briefing for U.S. Senators on Oct. 26, a senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was pointedly neutral on Vice President Dick Cheney's Capitol Hill lobbying to have the CIA exempted from legislation banning mistreatment of detainees...
...shelved document providing specific admission instructions to seminaries is expected to be issued in November. The "instruction" from the Congregation for Catholic Education would add some teeth to a long-standing but often loosely enforced ban on the ordination of gays, but it would also allow seminary officials some leeway...
Still, students said they realize that taped lectures will give them leeway in the event of a missed class...
...Linklater says he would be willing to do an action movie. Or a sequel to School of Rock, or a third installment of Before Sunrise, perhaps the lowest-grossing movie ever to spur a sequel. "We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people," he says, taking swings in his office with his aluminum bat. He thinks it's about a fear of failure. In the test audiences for the film, the kids were glad the Bears don't win the championship game, whereas parents weren...