Word: leeway
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...departmental courses, there seems to be a bit more leeway; there is not the same amount of concern over whether departmental course x is grading on the same scale as departmental course...
...beauty of this approach is that Microsoft would have leeway to develop its operating system as it sees fit, according to what the market wants. It could integrate a browser or anything else. But the dynamics of the market would restrain it. It couldn't leverage Microsoft Word and Office Suite to protect a monopoly in the operating system, so competing operating platforms could spring up. And during a transition phase, there would be rules allowing computer makers and developers to promote competition so that the best products...
...generally accepted practice among the Ivies concerns the different acceptance standards based on academics. All Ivy League schools must assess their athletes academically before accepting them, but certain schools are given more leeway in this respect to compensate for a less prominent name...
...partial-birth abortions. In the 1992 decision known as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Justices by a single vote reaffirmed Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to choose abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy. But they said the states had some leeway to regulate the procedure even before the fetus is viable, at around 24 weeks. In the mid '90s, the National Right to Life Committee and its allies zeroed in on an abortion method sometimes used in the late second trimester, labeled it partial birth, and began a highly successful campaign...
...press, McCain often seems a good deal more moderate than he actually is. He muses about helping the have-nots, but his policies tend to help the have-a-lots. He speaks of universal health care but offers no plan to get anywhere close. And reporters give him leeway because his reputation as a crusader for reform--someone who wants to "kick the big-money boys out of Washington"--is so disarming...