Word: leeway
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...Nine, if North Korea's claims are to be believed). Tehran also likes to draw Israel into the equation, accusing the West of a double standard for turning a blind eye to the Jewish State's nuclear capability. Politically and diplomatically, Iran may well feel it has substantial leeway in which to play hardball...
...Wenzhuo said her status as a noted human rights activist automatically gave her some leeway with the police...
...parliament set a ceiling for total spending. They allocate a portion of that total to ministries and agencies who then decide how it should be spent. So if there's a new project that needs financing, the funds have to be taken from elsewhere. The Finance Ministry gives wide leeway to the departments to make their own spending decisions. In Sweden, Knut Rexed, who was chief adviser to the Ministry of Finance during the budget process changeover, says the change allowed the government to cut spending by about 11% without most people noticing - except within ministries and agencies. He adds...
...These days, however, North Korea's writers are getting a little leeway. Last week, Pyongyang said it would host a meeting of South and North Korean writers, the first such get-together in nearly 60 years. And to the surprise of foreign observers, new topics are appearing in North Korean fiction: poverty, starvation, even the hint that not all officials are paragons of virtue. In 2002, state presses released Hwang Jin Yi, a ribald historical novel by Hong Seok Jung, which will be published in South Korea in September. The heroine is a courtesan who encounters starving masses, corrupt officials...
...rebar-stiff newsreaders intoning stilted copy supported by cheap graphics. The channel was "essentially a translation service for Chinese-language programs," Terenzio says. But CCTV International did have one small advantage: the English-language broadcaster is unintelligible to most Chinese, so its journalists enjoy slightly more reporting leeway. In one of his first moves, Terenzio called a meeting to stress that "reporters never say what they think, only what they know" and to urge that all government statements be attributed to their source, standard practice in the West. Within two weeks, "they were practically attributing the weather report," Terenzio says...