He appears to have given Mr Solchaga carte blanche to achieve his goal. By March, Mr Solchaga had his Convergence Plan ready.
"Management would still have the prerogative to use subjective judgment, they just wouldn't have carte blanche to use whatever subjective factor they want," says Ronald Ellis, staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
In response, Honeywell set up a special "tiger team" of marketing, design and engineering employees and gave it carte blanche.
Given western reluctance to intervene effectively, however, this policy would have offered a better chance of peace than negotiating while giving Serbs and Croats carte blanche to change facts on the ground.
Stephenson operated out of New York during the war and was given his famous code name and a virtual carte blanche to conduct espionage by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Mr Gallagher had carte blanche to harry his political opponents.
More important, the key distortion arises in your claim that I have a "pet project of using the Ninth Amendment as carte blanche for judges to create whatever new constitutional rights fit their fancy."
"The Treasury Department has taken the attitude that it will accept nothing that won't give them carte blanche," complained Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.).
The defence argued that this gave the authorities carte blanche to prosecute anyone - from senior officials who had unintentionally released classified data to newspaper readers who saw such material.