Now that dried foods have moved from a necessity to a luxury, the cook is allowed a certain amount of creative latitude.

Ronnette Riley, an architect whose clients include stores and restaurants, regrets the loss of creative latitude.

"We have given more creative latitude on this than many other series," she said.

In contrast to upper-middle-class professionals who are mostly hired to conceptualize, supervise and share their thoughts, many Americans have little autonomy or creative latitude in the workplace.

After producing projects for several TV networks, music libraries and music publishers, Costello and Hilker desired broader creative latitude and additional outlets for their music.

Her business savvy has been compared to that of Madonna, gaining a level of autonomy which enables "creative latitude and access to financial resources and mass-market distribution."

Forcing directors to look outside Argentina for money actually has given them more creative latitude than if they were working with production companies based here, many of which are linked to television channels.

Oshima received the funding and creative latitude as part of Shochiku's strategy of promoting films by several young directors they called the Shochiku-Ofuna New Wave.

The boat would offer designers more creative latitude than allowed within the restictions of the 12-Meter rule.

Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones was also brought in as a producer, after Warner Bros. denied the band full creative latitude.