Word: leeway
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There are, however, serious flaws in the Marxist-Leninist economic system. Communist countries say they have abolished unemployment?but at the cost of heavily overstaffing every office and factory with workers who seldom can be fired for failing to produce. Bureaucratic controls further cripple efficiency, and managers have little leeway for innovation. Consumer goods are still shoddy and chronically scarce. Long lines form immediately in Warsaw, Prague, Havana, Moscow and other Communist cities at rumors that a shop is about to receive a shipment of such coveted goods as shoes, fresh fish or fruit. Communist leaders boast that their citizens...
...addition, students would have greater leeway in experiencing higher level courses than allowed for in the limited number of electives students will face under the proposal. Students also could, in this way, fill core requirements with various desired full courses. Furthermore, this type of bypass would provide the equivalent of second exemptions for interdisciplinary concentrators, who now only have...
...front line held. On Wednesday Congress voted through a measure that calls for medical schools to increase their third-year class sizes next year by 5 per cent, but gives the schools broad leeway in choosing the transfer students who will fill those places...
...cities, then, must involve efforts to deal with the manifestations of social problems--housing and crime for instance--as well as with the social concerns themselves. The form this has taken in recent years is the Community Development (CD) program, a plan providing localities with block grants and the leeway to spend them as they...
...they can also be used to deny what is obvious, namely, that many adults are defined by the very fact that the playfulness of the stages has gone out of them--and not only the poor...but also the fortunate ones who are given so much deprived of all leeway it has paralyzed them...