Word: leeway
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...hints whatsoever, allowing his pupils to expect a repeat of the hourly. The boom was lowered, however, when Crumgold's assistant and grader. Father O'Malley, distributed the six-page exam with its three dozen identifications all drawn from the lectures. Dr. Crumgold allowed the good priest full leeway as to the grading, with the result that every student passed; not one walked away from that course indifferent to the dangers of overconfidence...
...hints whatsoever, allowing his pupils to expect a repeat of the hourly. The boom was lowered, however, when Crumgold's assistant and grader, Father O'Malley, distributed the six-page exam with its three dozen identifications all drawn from the lectures. Dr Crumgold allowed the good priest full leeway as to the grading, with the result that every student passed; not one walked away from that course indifferent to the dangers of overconfidence...
...from the process. Bill Moyers raised the fear of a President's "surrendering his decision-making authority to the computers and the junior military officers who stand over them." Foster retorted that by offering some degree of protection to U.S. offensive missiles, Safeguard would give the President more leeway than he might otherwise enjoy before launching a counterstrike against the adversary's homeland. "I don't want to give Safeguard up for some trigger-happy system where you have to salvo all our Minuteman missiles," he said. On the crucial issue of whether the U.S. can preserve...
What seems to distinguish the new drive from the old Great Leap, however, is its flexibility. There has been some advance planning, and there appear to be no rigid output targets. In fact, Peking is admonishing local officials to "leave enough leeway." Though not too much, of course. The goal of the latest campaign, as Shanghai radio explained it recently, is "a fruit that can be picked by jumping and reaching up, not a fruit that can be taken by stretching out one's arm from a lying or sitting position...
...fuselage make window seats rather cramped, even though the seats themselves are 34 in. wide, compared with 22 in. for a Boeing 747. Fully loaded, the Concorde will be able to cover about 4,000 miles, and Paris-New York is a 3,700-mile flight. That leaves no leeway for meeting international standards, which call for a 25% fuel-safety margin. Either the Concorde's range will have to be extended or the plane will have to be restricted to lighter loads...