Word: overridden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overriding the veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act until early this week. Few in Congress or the White House have much doubt that both chambers will vote by a top-heavy majority to make the bill law. Minnesota Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz predicted that "the veto will be overridden handily...
...years ago the outcome might have been different. From 1981 through 1986, Reagan vetoed 59 bills; only six of those vetoes were overridden. In addition, the mere threat of a veto caused Congress either to kill or to rewrite many bills. But since the Democrats gained control of the Senate in the 1986 elections, it has been Congress that has been imposing its will on the President. Reagan has swallowed many congressional actions of which he strongly disapproved -- the military-spending cuts forced by last year's budget compromise, for example -- rather than risk what he knew would be futile...
Secondly, though many stress the superiority of Harvard to the world "out there," it's worse in one very obvious sense. In the capitalist jungle, all personal differences tend to be overridden by the market; if you can make a boodle, the world will huddle at your feet...
...only the sixth of 50 vetoes to be reversed during the Reagan presidency. White House researchers could find only two other examples this century of foreign policy vetoes that were overridden -- a World War II immigration measure and the 1973 War Powers Act, which Richard Nixon tried unsuccessfully to scuttle. In effect, Congress called for an abrupt end to the Reagan Administration policy of "constructive engagement," through which Washington sought to nudge South Africa into gradually liberalizing its system of apartheid. Instead, Congress adopted measures designed to bring about social change by exerting economic pressure on the government of State...
...child abuse. Friday night's free-for-all with "bawdy Kate", the author of the ground-breaking 1968 manifesto Sexual Politics and a leading anticensorship advocate, provoked strong teactions from the crowded audience. Moderator Susan Suleiman's attempt to restore order during the question and answer period was overridden by a Cantabrigian majority intent on using the session as a forum for debating next month's referendum on the MacKinnon-Dworkin anti-porn bill...