PAGE A16 U.N. Victory for Iraq The Security Council agreed to give Iraq new leeway in spending the billions of dollars in oil proceeds it is accumulating.
A divided U.N. Security Council agreed to give Iraq new leeway in spending billions in oil proceeds that have been accumulating because of high oil prices.
Last week, the Security Council, over Washington's initial objections, agreed to give Iraq new leeway in spending billions of dollars in oil proceeds.
And most vital, despite dithering over how to present it, Labour has given itself at least a £30bn leeway in spending, a huge chunk out of Osborne's savage £48bn cuts.
Yet prime minister Mariano Rajoy's new (and conservative) government's pleas to give Madrid some leeway on spending cuts fell on deaf ears at Friday's EU summit of fiscal self-flagellists in Brussels.
Indeed, Mr. Bush has shaped his education proposals as a whole around the notion that the states should have more leeway in spending federal dollars, as well as the idea that schools must be held more accountable for their performance.
After a day of hard bargaining, a divided Security Council agreed tonight to give Iraq new leeway in spending the billions of dollars in oil proceeds accumulating in this period of high oil prices.
But with signs that a recovery is taking shape, Mr. Darling, who has battled his more politically minded prime minister Gordon Brown, to keep spending in check, had leeway for a raft of political sweeteners to please the party's left-leaning base.
In contrast, the British government has little leeway to spend its way out of any slump.
But, having splashed out on David Luiz, PSG simply did not have the leeway to spend big again and could not complete the deal.
In 2000, it hired a nationally known coach, paid him a salary that now totals about $1.5 million and gave him great leeway to spend what he deemed necessary.
