Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Senate is almost unique among Europe's upper houses. It is not a society of deliberative gentlemen remote from the legislative process, but has the same veto over proposed laws as the lower Chamber, and the same power to turn out a government by an 'adverse vote of confidence...
...proposal to provide a $300,000 mansion in Manhattan for Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., drew a prompt veto from the prospective tenant. The Lodge reasoning: a waste of money. "I suppose [it] is part of my education in the idiotic things that happen in a bureaucracy . . . The one thing I am not trying to do is increase the expense of the Government. My whole effort is in the opposite direction...
Just as tutors should not veto reasonable student requests, they should not dictate the work merely because the students do not seem interested in deciding for themselves. Stimulating discussion along lines of student interest should produce further footholds in new topics. If, allowing his tutees freedom to choose their own study, the tutor cannot interest them, he is probably a worse teacher than they are students...
President Paul D. Sheais '54 and Beilenson will draw up a list of undergraduate political organization to be invited to join. They wish to include as wide a spectrum of opinion as possible in this group on which one negative vote constitutes a virtual veto...
...Council spent considerable time arguing a point which became virtually semantical. At heated issue was whether the proposed group be autonomous or a Council and hoc committee. Since in either case the Council would hold veto power, the question was one of prestige...