Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists or fellow-travellers." The station suggested that Shapiro teach in Cuba. The State of Michigan has a long and unenviable record of applying political pressure on its public universities. At Wayne State in Detroit, curriculum and personnel have, from time to time, been subject to a tacit veto by the state legislature which allocates funds. Michigan State, which boasts of being the "pioneer land grant college," seems to be receptive to similar pressures...
...first vote of the meeting, which aroused little dissent, attacked the notion that departments might recommend or veto students for the C.L.G.S., and seemed reasonable enough: criteria for determining which seniors who abandoned their theses might be eligible would vary greatly from department to department. Essentially, decisions would be arbitrary, hence unfair. It was then that the majority argued: it is much better to unsnarl the whole administrative tangle by legislating automatic eligibility for students with the proper collection of grades. Yet the opposition was quick to point out that to lift the restriction setting the choice for C.L.G.S...
Even the two staunch Republican papers in Detroit agreed that it was a "protest" victory, because Governor Swainson had the courage to veto the Bowman bill, thus forcing suburbanites to pay city taxes in Detroit...
...Englishman in charge of keeping watch on Zeckendorf: "The program is to spend the next three to five years developing the property we now have. We have absolutely no intention of making any further purchases." Zeckendorf says he feels the same way. With the British holding a veto in Zeckendorf Property, he could hardly say otherwise. Besides, after all those years of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, Bill Zeckendorf seems to find financial solidity a satisfying new condition...
...addition to a popularly elected President, who will be chosen in March to a four-year term, the new constitution provides for a Premier whose role is limited to liaison man be tween the President and a unicameral legislature of 150 to 200 members who will have no veto powers over the executive. The President, on the other hand, is given enough power to make Charles de Gaulle look like a front man. Foremost candidate for the job: Park Chung...