“headroom” is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is generally used either to refer to the amount of available space one has in a particular area, or to describe the amount of freedom one has in achieving a particular goal. For example, you might say, “We have a lot of headroom for growth in this area.”.
We maintain that ITV has a rare mix of operating leverage, asset backing and significant financial headroom, with a world-class management team.
The changes will reduce our current capacity by 849 places and I am confident that they can be safely managed within existing headroom, whilst maintaining our ability to cope with any increase in population.
To provide the necessary future headroom even for minimally counter-cyclical fiscal policy, most need to raise taxes and cut spending now.
In giving the recording more "headroom", they could then crank up the overall volume to provide the finished product with extra punch.
It is a decent measure of how vulnerable a government's finances are to a shock.For those countries with no headroom (in the red or amber zone on the chart), the IMF's paper is not much use: they need to take action to reduce their borrowing levels.
As problems in India this summer have shown, increased borrowing costs can quickly cause problems in an economy with little fiscal or monetary headroom.
This means that even their relatively low average wages of £12.50 an hour gobble up 58% of the value that they create, suggesting that there is little headroom for pay rises.Yet the sector provides a counterexample to the argument that low productivity has been caused by employment growth.
At the same time the country's vast foreign-exchange reserves mean China need not worry about a sudden drying up of foreign capital, the main cause of many other emerging-economy crises.This combination of control and buffers gives China the time and headroom needed to tackle its debt problem.
There should have been fiscal headroom for this, but the government tried to circumvent the budget process by borrowing the cash through emergency legislation.
Although the IMF expects these to stabilise in 2014, it sees additional reductions as unlikely.Fiscal headroom, in particular, has decreased in emerging-market economies, including the so-called "BRICs".
That gives headroom for future rises (Canada's rate is 26.5%) and edges Britain away from its low-tax neighbour, Ireland (see chart).In this section Out of the mire Pipe dreams Beloved, beleaguered Halal la carte Uprated Moor de France Game, set, match The power of prayer In the ring with Chuka Obama ReprintsA range of sweeteners would ease the pain.
