Word: leeway
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...More of Less." Famed for his insistence on precision in both design and execution, Mies insisted that the 4-ft. 7½-in. module for the building be rigorously carried throughout, allowed only a one-sixteenth-inch leeway even in the interior offices, hallways and shower rooms. Draftsmen on the job rapidly discovered that Mies's doctrine of "less is more" applies to work as well as design, spent weeks redesigning door handles, mail chutes and even fire alarms to put them in harmony with the building. To heighten the impact of Mies's austere geometry, the building...
President Logan Wilson of the University of Texas warned that "too much leeway is given youngsters in evading such fundamentals as mathematics, foreign languages and science. Extracurricular demands on student time-clubs, student newspapers, marching bands and drum majorettes-have become excessive...
...actual dollars and cents, the total obligations of the U.S. already exceed the $275 billion debt limit, though technically the Treasury's books still show a $1.7 billion leeway. The Federal National Mortgage Association and the Agriculture Department have issued $2.8 billion in notes and debentures held by banks and private investors. These do not show up as part of the "national debt," though they are Government obligations...
...main value of the $275 billion figure has been to act as a psychological drag on Government spending. Originally set in 1946, when the debt was $269 billion, the ceiling was low enough to remind the U.S. of the need for economy, but high enough to give the Treasury leeway in its operations. But the Korean war pushed the debt right to the ceiling. Ever since, the Treasury and the Administration have been in such a constant struggle to manage the nation's finances that the ceiling often costs more than it is worth...
...away from making their students work hard enough, and have generally thought a well-bred air of amateurishness more gentlemanly and becoming than down-to-earth efficiency. If we put our heads to the matter, certainly we ought to be able to say to a good student: "With a leeway of not more than one year, it will take you so and so long to take the Ph.D...