Word: leeway
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hasn't Palm Beach started counting yet? Broward has gone ahead. Palm Beach has already voted to count. They've already been given leeway by a local judge to count those "dimpled chads" any way they want. Fifty election workers have been standing by for two days. And now the Supreme Court of Florida has turned them loose...
...Though some of the actors are sharper than others, the fluidity of the ensemble cast together enlivens the bare text of the play. Gorky allows the director a lot of leeway with respect to who talks to whom when six or seven characters are on stage. This production takes full advantage by creating eddies of conversation that alternately split and combine based on the context, adding texture to what would otherwise be a dry series of declamations...
According to the format worked out by the two campaigns and the independent Commission on Presidential Debates, each debate will last for 90 minutes and be presided over by NewsHour's Jim Lehrer, who brings moderating experience from three previous presidential debates. Lehrer has also been given leeway to create questions himself...
...begin publishing again. This is more than just a battle for civil rights: reopening the dissident press will help keep the reform movement--and its leaders--alive. The Participation Front is also hoping to open Iran's opaque judicial system with a bill that will give conservative judges less leeway to lock up reformers on grounds that their democratic ideas contravene Islamic teachings...
Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson, however, writes in an e-mail message that universities can be held accountable for such copyright infringements, and the courts cannot give much leeway...