Word: leeway
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Mahan said he also thought a larger blocking group size might decrease the number of inter-House transfers and would also give students greater leeway to choose quads or triples within their blocking group...
...Internet supporters. Trippi said the goal was a million by the end of the year. Last week they had only 515,000. The New-New movement may have reached a plateau. Then again, doctors have been known to change their diagnoses. The devotion of his followers gives Dean the leeway to take the movement in any direction he wants. One can only wonder what the next New-New thing will...
...recently contentious issue of trade policy, Wen said that talks with President Bush were highly productive, noting that the President had agreed to give China more leeway in its development...
...school, Jean Chamoux has seen a wave of Muslim students enroll as families look for more tolerant alternatives to French public schools. "Two decades ago," he says, "Muslim leaders requested the same kinds of considerations other religions enjoy: designated sections in cemeteries, construction permits for places of worship, some leeway in the observance of Ramadan or the wearing of head scarves. Those were denied. Today, the children of those leaders are demanding - not requesting - their right to freedom of religion as citizens of Europe." To many Muslims, last week's episode in Italy suggests that some religions are more free...
...Under pressure from the state of Lower Saxony, which owns a 22% stake in the automaker and occupies two seats on its supervisory board, VW in 2001 agreed to hire 5,000 unemployed people and work with local government agencies to train them. In return, VW will have greater leeway in setting their hours according to production demands. Part of the deal also entails that workers form teams to solve assembly-line glitches. Cost-cutting isn't enough, though. For VW to grow profits, it will need to sell plenty of those higher-margin luxury cars. And to do that...