Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Startling Defeat. Again the President spoke in congressional shorthand: "Sustain the veto, and well come in 300 million over." Translation: if we can beat the Democrats' attempt to overturn my veto, I'll settle for a bill that is $300 million above what I originally wanted. In reply, the Republican leaders offered Ford their optimistic assurance that the veto would be sustained. "We're not going to have any trouble," said...
From Emile Zola's "J'Accuse" on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus to Columnist William F. Buckley's decade-long effort to free convicted Murderer Edgar Smith, there has been a long history of laymen trying to overturn what they see as injustice wrought by police, lawyers and judges. Undoing the law's due process is an enormously difficult task. But last week two such efforts by laymen were gathering momentum and one was finally triumphant...
...President to veto the bill. At week's end Ford's closest advisers were still not certain whether the President would turn down the bill, thereby repudiating Zarb and angering millions of Americans who drive cars or heat their homes with oil. The odds that Congress would overturn a veto are too close to call...
...foreign and domestic drilling operations. Now a wave of hostility unmatched since the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 has plunged the oil industry into big political trouble. In one of the milder manifestations of anti-industry sentiment, the Federal Trade Commission last week took only hours to overturn a recommendation by one of its own administrative law judges and resolved to press ahead with a two-year-old antitrust suit that seeks to break up eight major oil companies...
...Management: Cambridge's present city manager, James. L. Sullivan, and its new schools superintendent, William Landon, are both the products of extensive searches by the liberal political leaders. As trained administrators and outsiders, they represent the liberals' attempt to overturn a long-standing system of civil service and patronage appointments. If the conservatives win a major election victory, at least the city manager will join the 8.9 per cent unemployed...