Word: leeway
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Additionally, the Capital Campaign gave him the leeway to implement change on a physical level. Under Rudenstine’s leadership, Harvard renovated landmarks such as Memorial Hall and the Harvard Union extensively. Five years and $65 million went into overhauling first-year residence halls and other Yard buildings. The University reconditioned Holyoke Center and William James Hall. The business school, the law school, the medical school and the College began countless new construction projects...
...first new business to come up after the Memorial Day recess, Daschle vows, will be the patient's bill of rights--not the version Bush touted as a compromise, but the one Daschle wants, which gives patients vastly greater leeway to sue their HMOs. After the Senate passed the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform bill in April, Lott refused to send it to the House. Daschle told TIME, "I'll hand-deliver it if I have...
...Bush administration in fact shifted U.S. policy on Taiwan and China, or is the greater leeway given to President Chen simply a bit of tactical tweaking on Washington's part...
...Palumbo: They could, although it?s not clear how often that sort of thing happens. They probably wouldn?t have any legal problems: Current federal law provides law enforcement officers with plenty of leeway in dealing with what the law considers "drug offenders...
...There is a feeling that double standards exist and that the OECD allows more leeway to its own members than to those outside. But the Isle of Man has made a pre-emptive strike of its own. It announced that taxes in general would come down, with the corporate levy slashed to 10% over the next few years and the top income tax rate falling from last year's 20% to 15%. Universally low taxes should pre-empt claims of ring-fencing...