Word: leeway
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...America is a dangerous place for boys. Life is not the same as it was 30 years ago. A mistake as a youngster can remain on one's criminal record forever, and police give much less leeway when dealing with "rowdy" behavior. I fear for my son's future more than for my daughter's: Can he make it to adulthood without a screw-up that could ruin him for life? To their credit, boys today have adjusted to the rules of the baby boomers who have outlawed the antics of their youth. Let boys have a wild streak, fight...
Then there are the hedge funds, unregulated investment firms that had been snapping up that private-equity debt, subprime mortgages and all sorts of other weird new securities. After several years of calm, fund blowups have become commonplace this summer--and because hedgies have lots of leeway in how they value their odd investments, there may be many more blowups in the wings that we don't know about...
...course, being born and raised in the U.S. will always give me some leeway for my clumsiness here in China. However, it’s an excuse that, like once being eight years old, I’ll hopefully stop using soon...
...instincts tell us to apply the same basic principles to racial dialogue, and in practice we usually do. Even the staunchest advocates of equal opportunity racism must admit that contemporary culture grants a special leeway to public figures who mock their own ethnic group. It is hard to imagine that a white Dave Chappelle would have much success casually tossing around the n-word on national television. Similarly, if a gentile comedian told us to “throw the Jew down the well,” it would lead to an uproar, but when Sacha Baron Cohen?...
...about six seats, a lead which the crew then increased and held throughout the remainder of the race.“We were still pretty strong in the middle, but it’s easier to be strong in the middle when you give yourself a bit of leeway like we did,” said Adomanis, who is also a Crimson editorial editor.“Towards the end of the course there was a bit of a headwind, so we were finding it harder to move forward,” he added. “You can never...