Word: overturn
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Last year the Supreme Court gave constitutional blessing to the rule, and President Bush vetoed legislation to overturn it. The House and Senate have recently approved a new bill to throw out the rule, if only to force Bush to veto it again during an election year. It's unlikely that Congress will be able to muster enough votes for an override...
...from Bush's viewpoint, the exercise is also painful. While his stance mollifies the moral conservatives whose support he must have in November, it offends moderates whose votes he would love to claim too. The House of Representatives gave him another headache by voting, 260 to 148, to overturn the Administration's ban on the use of fetal tissue obtained from planned abortions for medical research. The restriction had been imposed in response to pro-lifers' contention that use of such tissue increases the number of abortions. Bush promises a veto, which will almost certainly stick. His bona fides with...
...passions of 1989--when hundreds of angry students disrupted a council meeting to overturn a measure calling for ROTC's return to campus--did not factor in this year's debate, which largely failed to solicit a significant response from the undergraduate community...
...right to an abortion. Ann Stone, who leads Republicans for Choice, thinks Bush must again become pro-choice -- a position Bush himself once held -- to prevent disgruntled moderate voters from casting their lot with the pro- choice Perot. Stone also fears an anti-Republican backlash should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1974 decision that guaranteed abortion rights...
...cornered, Perot can be as fierce as the rattlesnake whose fangs he keeps preserved in a glass bowl in his office. When EDS lost part of the lucrative Texas Medicaid contract to a rival firm in 1980, Perot employees promptly dug up enough dirt on the winning bidder to overturn the contract award. One of Perot's current business ventures, run by his son Ross Jr., is to develop the land around Fort Worth's new Alliance Airport, which sits on property that the Perot family shrewdly donated (thus vastly increasing the value of the adjoining acreage they kept...