Word: leeway
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...Federal Government's latest tables for "healthy" weights, issued last year, provide more leeway than earlier charts. The new standards allow for a range of 30 lbs. or more at each height and up to a 16-lb. gain after age 35. Meanwhile the American rage for dieting has diminished...
...past, the Court has struck down every prior restraint it has considered on the merits. It has also recognized the good served by the airing of alleged government misconduct and granted the press special leeway in those cases. The CNN dispute fits squarely into that mould. The power that the national media can wield may be frightening, but it is mild in comparison to the danger of placing editorial decisions in the hands of the judiciary. Moreover, given the questionable complicity between Noriega and the United States Government, we cannot allow that secrecy to continue...
Under the pending resolution, the President would gain authority to issue orders on everything from wage hikes to property ownership. Though his pronouncements would be subject to a veto by the 542-member parliament, that body is so indecisive that Gorbachev would have plenty of leeway...
...creators of network shows are getting a bit more leeway to toy with style as well. Characters on several series talk directly to the camera or convey their thoughts as ironic commentary on the action. Fantasy sequences and playfully exaggerated camerawork abound. Even routine sitcoms are striving for little stylistic flourishes. NBC's American Dreamer, starring Robert Urich as a newspaper columnist raising two kids, features Our Town-style narration. Working It Out, another NBC sitcom, with Jane Curtin and Stephen Collins as divorced people who meet cute at a cooking class, chronicles the start of their relationship in flashbacks...
...issues in this case, though, have less to do with legal hairsplitting than with basic sentiments about the value of free expression and the press. A belief in the virtue of an unshackled and vigorous press means recognizing that the leeway demanded by free debate will sometimes allow writers to overreach their knowledge, or even to trample the truth. However, if one believes that uninhibited speech is dangerous or that the press too frequently serves up sensationalistic trash, one takes the opposite view...