Word: leeway
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...effect, hospitals in the northern part of the state were willing to go along more quickly than in relatively conservative Southern California. Kansas and Colorado have virtually identical statutes; yet an abortion is far more easily obtained in Kansas than in Colorado. Reason: Kansas courts have given doctors great leeway in evaluating the physical and psychological impact of an unwanted pregnancy; Colorado courts have given doctors there very little...
Though the sentences for many crimes are prescribed by law, judges often have enough leeway to offer a choice between prison and other punishments-with all sorts of strange conditions attached. It is not clear whether or not those conditions are always legal, but defendants faced with a recent spate of such unusual choices have consistently rejected prison...
...Defense Department had done all this public relations work and couldn't, at that time, raise the projected ceiling. I guess they've realized their error, and are going to leave themselves leeway by projecting 100 as the January limit," he added...
...where committees are much larger and where the Democrats have no fewer than four of the 65-and-over set patiently waiting to take the place of Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, 65, on the Armed Services Committee. But the plan would at least give the rank and file some leeway in picking its leaders. More important, it would put a chairman on notice that he held his post by approval and not by right...
...last assignment, as commander of U.S. naval forces in Viet Nam, he toured, almost daily, the coastal bases, ships at sea, boats and barges of his "muddy water" navy. While he plotted overall strategy to check enemy shipping and water-borne infiltration, he gave junior officers and chiefs considerable leeway with tactics for their own vessels. He also heard out their complaints and came away convinced that today's servicemen have "an absolute right to be treated better than they have been -they have volunteered for an unpopular...