Word: leeway
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...from here? Stanford law professor R. Richard Banks, a leading scholar on racial discrimination, believes that litigation needs to be combined with other advocacy strategies, but should take care to leave room for politics. More and more African Americans are in positions of political power and they need the leeway to institute social change. At the same time, however, litigation should not be ignored because it can galvanize social movements, says Banks, and might alter people's values the way Brown...
...groups the CIA was using to help hunt bin Laden, according to an official familiar with the documents. At the time, proxy groups such as Afghanistan's Northern Alliance were considered the best hope for catching al-Qaeda's leader. But intelligence officials wanted to give some proxies less leeway to kill bin Laden in order to minimize the danger that they might use U.S. power to try to eliminate tribal rivals instead of bin Laden...
...reason that we decided to go with the Friday night is that it gives us a little more leeway because, as we’re all aware, Springfest is a family friendly environment,” Haan says. “So this gives us more leeway in terms of what kinds of artists we can have come perform...
...Congress alone isn't to blame for the skewed funding. The Executive Branch was left with exceptional leeway to spend the remaining 60% of the funds any which way--including according to risk. But first in 2002 and then again in 2003 and 2004, under the newly created Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Branch just split the money according to each state's population...
...Pearl's notes, Stewart did not deny knowing about the phone log but said only that she didn't know the time the message was taken. Because Armstrong didn't record the time, the defense will say Stewart didn't lie. The judge, meanwhile, is giving the prosecution little leeway to prove Stewart committed securities fraud by misleading her investors about her ImClone actions. To rehabilitate her credibility, she may take the stand, which could make last week's drama look tame by comparison...