Word: vetoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Beryl Cohen of Brookline said that the new legislature will not stand for Volpe's "care taker approach" to government. "Volpe will be the beneficiary of welfare programs in spite of himself," he prophesied, adding that the Democratic majority is large enough in each House to overrule the gubernatorial veto...
Recent British proposals for MLF would give the European nations as well as the U.S. a veto over strategy. The decision on these, which "brings the issue of control out into the open for the first time," must first be taken by the U.S., not France, Hoffmann said...
Stirring Gestures. The only alternative to 1) MLF and 2) a French-controlled nuclear force would be a truly integrated European army with its own nuclear capacity. But De Gaulle dislikes the idea of such integration, and Washington dislikes the idea of giving up its nuclear veto. If the U.S. persists with the MLF scheme-which Britain's Labor government may accept, although with modifications-the French hint that they might pull out of NATO...
Etzioni spoke in detail on the operations of the MLF, and stressed the idea that the European nations involved have shown very little enthusiasm for a joint weapons system in which the Americans exercise veto power. As a result, a clause may be introduced into the treaty agreement which will allow the Europeans to buy out the American veto. Control over the nuclear fleet might then pass to a federation of nations, Etzioni speculated...
...Amendment, every house of every state legislature must be apportioned on the basis of districts "as nearly of equal population as is practicable." Can one house of a bicameral legislature be organized on a nonpopulation basis to reflect minority interests? No, says the Court, because such a house might veto majority interests. Even so, the order does not preclude two different kinds of houses. As long as both are "substantially" based on population, they can differ in numerical size, length of terms, district size and district delegation (single-member or multimember). One house can also balance off "minor inequities...