Word: leeway
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...tell people what to do all the time. I'm interested in finding people, developing them, giving them leeway and backing them...
Yorty is righting for a revision of the city charter that would give him more leeway in running the city, even though it would leave the county and state with most of their present powers. It obviously takes more than one man to run a city as vast, diverse and complicated as Los Angeles. The qualities that give Los Angeles its vitality, in fact, also make it a hard city to tame. Most Americans, as Berkeley's Sociologist Nathan Glazer points out, would like, if given their choice, to create their own version of Los Angeles. They would like...
Aiming for bold, big-screen entertainment, Director Sydney Pollack emphasizes rowdy period flavor and gives his cast leeway for showy performances. The movie as a whole is too bright and vulgar to be dull, but expensive talent has been squandered on every chore except the crucial one of keeping a small, evanescent tragedy in focus...
...dilemma for Red educators is, of course, that as they lower the ideological pitch and give students more leeway, they invite ideas that they consider dangerous. As education advances in Eastern Europe, the student commitment to Communism declines. The point seems to be that, East or West, education breeds freedom...
...Rent Imprimatur. The Interstate Commerce Commission, well aware of the perennial boxcar shortages, has long fought the low-rental rules laid down by the Association of American Railroads' imprimatur. Indeed, a bill giving the ICC greater rate-setting leeway last year passed the Senate, now is stalled in the House. Still undaunted, the ICC ordered that all railroads receiving boxcars from the Great Northern or the Northern Pacific promptly unload them and return them to their corporate owners within 24 hours. If the receiving rail lines ignore this order, the ICC will probably have to go into the courts...