Word: leeway
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...area that can make or break a class, students have (officially) almost no leeway: choosing a teaching fellow...
...malpractice claims, may come from his celebrity client. When the spotlight-seeking Simpson returns to the stand to answer friendlier questions from his own lawyers, he could be less guarded and even more prone to missteps. Says Seidman: "When you rehabilitate a witness, you give him a little more leeway to explain things at greater length...
...practice, new members of the Loewen family are likely to find they do not have quite as much leeway as bottoms-up management might suggest. The company immediately begins a process that Ray Loewen calls "normalization," or bringing newly acquired homes up to financial expectations. All the comfy perks of a family business--extra cars and dry cleaning--suddenly disappear. And prices rise. Loewen also institutes its "Third Unit Target Merchandising" system in the casket showroom, which capitalizes on the propensity of survivors to avoid the cheapest two caskets and choose the next one up in price...
...Mackay-Smith said the members of the Ad Board believe the Faculty has given them very little leeway, and they must "reflect community standards...
...enemies labeled "Tricky Dick" lived to pass judgment on the President known as "Slick Willy." Throughout the 1992 campaign, Nixon denigrated Clinton: "He's Dogpatch...Even his wife is for him only because he is her ticket to power...[He] will be a disaster. But it will give me leeway to criticize him on Russian aid and everything else he screws up. With Bush I had to be restrained." But when the fledgling President sought Nixon's counsel on foreign policy, Nixon found him "very respectful with no sickening bulls----...It was the best conversation with a President...