Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open when a splinter faction of Valencia's own Conservative Party and a dissident Liberal group joined with followers of ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to form an anti-Front coalition. With 126 of Congress' 282 seats, the coalition has more than the one-third necessary to block all government legislation and be come, as Valencia himself admits, "unbearable opposition." Rojas seeks more than that. "In the congressional elections next March," he vows, "we will get enough votes to void the National Front and move right into the Presidential Palace...
...major stumbling block to effecting any radical changes in the composition of the clubs is their policy of electing "legacies"--the sons of club alumni. Since much of the clubs' endowment comes from alumni support, it is financially expedient--if nothing else--to elect the legacies. Some years back, a wealthy industrialist who had belonged to the Spee as an undergraduate was enraged when his son was not elected to the club. Storming up to Cambridge in his Rolls-Royce, accompanied by a coterie of servants...
...liberal in 1910, democracy demands that the powers of the speaker be limited. If you are a liberal in 1937, the ability of committees block legislation should not be threatened by irresponsible use of such methods as the discharge petition (New Deal Democrats raised the number of signatures needed for discharge petitions in that year...
...been a consistent outsider; you will both agree that the powers of the leadership should be increased to maximize "responsibility," and that every possible means--such as decreasing the number of signatures required for a discharge petition--should be used to minimize the power of committees to block legislation...
...Yards are generally considered to be the first choice of most Library officials, but the high purchasing price is reliably reported to be a major stumbling block to their acquisition. When the Yards were first put up for sale in 1962, the University bid about $6 million for the 12 acre area...