Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formation of the Student Committee on University Priorities (SCOUP) that could veto and rescind all decisions that affect all students...
Some aides mention the possibility that Congress might not be able to decide between the two packages, and may avoid the difficult choice by passing both bills and letting Carter decide which to implement. Carter has said before that he would veto the tax credit, but much would depend on the decisiveness of support for each bill in Congress. Whichever bill passes, it will mean more money--maybe a lot more--for a substantial number of Harvard students...
...student access committee was agreed upon, and SCOUP, minus the veto-power, was also created. Administrators agreed to the commencement speaker proposal and also ratified a long list of minority demands that included the formation of a minority-advising committee and an ad hoc committee on financial aid and admissions...
...next day Bergland warned Agricultural Committee Chairmen Thomas Foley in the House and Herman Talmadge in the Senate that the President would veto the farm bill if a joint conference committee did not drop the amendment. Three days before Bergland passed along the veto threat, the leading sugar-user spokesman, Coca-Cola's chief purchaser, John Mount, remarked to a group of colleagues while they were having drinks at the bar of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel: "If we cannot prevail in conference, we will just have to call in a few chits and have the President veto...
...American and British governments want to see if the Smith plan will work and, more important, whether it will lead to a genuine transfer to black rule. The Rhodesian whites have won several minority safeguards, including enough seats in the new Parliament to give them veto power over constitutional changes for ten years. If they also retain control over the armed forces, they could wind up as the real power in the new regime...