Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope of avoiding a presidential veto, the sponsors of the measure resorted to a parliamentary trick and attached it to a crucial, though unrelated bill raising the federal debt ceiling. But the maneuver only angered many in the House who were at best unenthusiastic about the legislation. At the urging of Al Ullman of Oregon, the Rules Com mittee rejected the Senate's amendment; the House then turned it down by a decisive 347 to 54 vote...
Tough Bargaining. The act in effect gives the government veto power over efforts by foreign firms to start new businesses in Canada, expand present operations into new fields (as opposed to simply increasing capacity), or take over any Canadian company that does more than $3,000,000 a year in business. Plans for any such moves will have to be submitted to a screening agency, which will make a preliminary decision as to whether the proposals promise "significant benefit to Canada": final approval, however, can come only from the Canadian cabinet. "Foreign firms" are defined as those in which...
...represented in the Parliament according to the national percentages they receive; the winning party designates a prime minister. The most likely possibility is that a very substantial shift to Likud will take place, perhaps not quite large enough to elect a prime minister, but certainly sufficient to create a veto power for Likud in the Parliament. A public opinion poll published last week in Haaretz, Israel's leading independent newspaper, showed that if the election were held now, Mapai and Likud would run even...
...furor that followed the veto, CPB's chairman, John W. Macy, resigned in protest. To replace Macy, and to place the CPB in friendly hands, Nixon appointed Henry W. Loomis. Loomis, a former deputy director of the United States Information Agency, shared Nixon's antipathy toward the "fourth network concept" that was favored at PBS. Loomis has been an activist chairman who has worked vigorously to dismantle PBS's public affairs programming...
This was not the first time that the U.A.W. tradesmen had been rebellious. They began agitating for special treatment in the late 1950s, threatening to defect to other unions or to form their own. By letting them veto parts of the contract, union chiefs put down the insurrection, though uprisings still occur and probably will continue...