Word: leeway
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...city’s guidelines are not very specific, leaving officials some leeway in determining procedures...
...vast possibility for sexual violence at final clubs. “The issue of final clubs and sexual safety is inextricable. When I was a freshman, I didn’t understand that final clubs are not under University protection, and this gives them a lot of leeway. It creates a very dangerous position for women, especially freshmen, who don’t understand exactly what they are,” she says...
...will take months before a hearing is scheduled and the outcome is uncertain. Most states have only broadly written regulations governing acupuncturists, with few specific guidelines. They can't draw blood, write prescriptions or make referrals for x-rays, but otherwise, like doctors, they have lots of leeway in how they choose to practice. The burden is on consumers to sniff out the bad ones. That's made all the more difficult by Westerners' general unfamiliarity with Chinese medicine...
...claim that it was in the nation’s best interest. Unfortunately, many of those restraints seem to all but disappear during war. No wonder Bush was so quick to declare the bombings “Acts of War.” Admittedly, a president should have more leeway for action during a crisis—the ability to call up troops, for instance, and to engage in high-level diplomatic talks. But it never relieves him of his responsibility to tell the American people what he is doing. If we aren’t a nation of democratic...
...Last week, President Bush threatened to veto the Kennedy-McCain bill, which provides patients with a great deal of leeway in suing their HMOs, casting his lot instead with a more HMO-friendly version sponsored by GOP Senator Bill Frist. It sounds like a recipe for stalemate, but after years of arguing and finger-pointing over their failure to compromise, Capitol Hill lawmakers can scarcely afford to let a chance for indemnification pass them by. White House observers say Bush is open to negotiations...