Word: leeway
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Some TFs do worry, however, that the broad leeway Feldstein had in lecturing and assigning articles allowed some of his political views to seep into the course...
While professors are given some leeway to award more ‘A’ grades than the set 35 percent, they are required to account for the breach at a meeting and in writing...
...Senator Clinton's supporters will say she is that candidate. And it is true that Clinton has far more leeway to run as a moderate than almost any other Democrat. Her repositioning on social issues has been overrated-she will have to do more than merely "respect" those who oppose abortion; she will have to propose creative compromises...
...companies that are ethical do have some leeway in enforcing standards on the nations they work in. Unocal threatened to leave Burma when it heard reports that the government was using slave labor in the construction of a pipeline. Other firms like Encana Corporation in Ecuador have set aside funds for reforestation in areas near their oil fields. After all, a host government that has been sanctioned by most of the world has little left to lose except the income from investments made by those firms that will deal with them...
...network “gave us tremendous leeway,” Schur writes. “Kevin Reilly, the President of NBC, was a big fan of the original, and the last thing he wanted to do was take this brilliantly conceived show and ‘Americanize’ it—laugh track, cheesily good-looking actors...