Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objections and suggestions for riders to be attached to Britain's conditions of entry. Meeting in London last week, the Outer Seven nervously agreed to stick together in wooing the Six to prevent anyone's jumping the gun-but also agreed that no single nation could veto the marriage if the terms suited everybody else...
...family (three boys and one girl). Last week, as Britain started Bechuanaland on the road to self-government, the man the British banished was on the road back to power. Seretse took office as a member of the 35-man Legislative Council that will run Bechuanaland, subject to British veto, and was appointed to the ten-man Executive Council that will function as a Cabinet...
...President should be empowered, subject to congressional veto, to raise or lower tax rates on a temporary basis by as much as five percentage points in order to combat inflation or recession...
Surprisingly few neutral nations have been taken in. They have seen enough of the Russian veto technique to realize that it could paralyze the very international bodies in which they put their trust...
...made no easier by the way things were going on the Continent last week. France, anxious to find markets for its burgeoning farm surpluses, abruptly demanded a common agricultural price and marketing system that would rule throughout the Common Market. To back their demand, the French threatened to veto any further industrial tariff reduction in the Common Market unless an agricultural agreement was reached...