Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's veto, which the commission calls "consistent" with his policies against concentration of power in the media, destroyed already weak ties between existing public broadcasting bureaucracies. Relations between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), both vying for financial and creative supremacy, deteriorated. When organizational conflicts subsided, Nixon signed a bill authorizing increased local funding. Decisions in 1975 stabilized the system further. Institutional reorganization coupled with a new multi-year funding plan "helped stimulate public broadcasting's recovery and renewed development." Under this system, as a barrage of figures indicate, public television experienced...
Alan Greenspan would endorse an amendment specifying that "all money bills, budget authority, appropriations and outlays would require a two-thirds vote by both houses of Congress." Trouble is, that would give veto power to one-third of Congress and seriously undermine the principle of majority rule. Yet, while all the ideas have flaws, Greenspan argues: "If the Congress does not respond to what is now in the process of occurring out in the grass roots, we will end up with a constitutional convention, and I think that would be a bad mistake...
...requests are granted. John Heins, who works in the rubber department, got two raises in two months for a total 80?-an-hour increase (to $6.50), and plans to request another in May. Pay requests have been so reasonable, averaging 10.9% last year, that management has never exercised its veto right...
Still holding elective office 19 years later, Thelma pounced again last March, after she had moved up to Lieutenant Governor. When the current Governor, Democrat Julian Carroll, left the state briefly, Stovall exercised her temporary veto authority to kill the Kentucky legislature's attempt to rescind its earlier ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The veto stuck...
...delegates to the F.L.N.'s fourth congress convened in Algiers last week to ratify the council's choice, neither Yahiaoui nor Bouteflika had gained a majority in the Council of the Revolution. The reason: neither man had won the support of the army, which had virtual veto power over the choice. The impasse forced the congress to add another day to its scheduled four, but in the end, Chadli, the military's candidate, prevailed...