Word: vetoes
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...invasion has affected Israel's reputation overseas. Apart from the criticism it has aroused in the U.S., the attack has been widely condemned in Western Europe. The French government, which has been particularly active in seeking to defuse the crisis, was also enraged by a U.S. veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution that France sponsored two weeks ago calling for both Israeli and Palestinian withdrawal from Beirut. (The U.S. protested that the resolution did not call for a disarmament of the P.L.O.) The British government has roundly condemned the Israeli action in Lebanon, where, in the somewhat ironic...
...phrase was used in an oft-quoted New York Daily News headline after President Gerald Ford in 1975 said he would veto federal funds to help New York City avoid bankruptcy. The headline: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD...
Even for Congress to hold the 1983 deficit to $103.9 billion, legislators must raise $21 billion in new taxes to help close the spending gap. Yet the White House has repeatedly asserted that the President will veto any attempt to delete the third year of his tax-cut package, and business lobbyists are fiercely fighting off attempts to raise taxes on energy, alcohol and corporations...
...nothing else, the new rules should prevent some wasted effort in takeover battles. Since 1979, American businesses have spent $182 billion to merge with or acquire other firms. Companies, though, often complete a deal only to have Washington veto it as anticompetitive. Last year Mobil Corp. announced plans to spend an estimated $6.5 billion in what eventually turned out to be a futile struggle to acquire Marathon Oil Co. The takeover was blocked in federal court because it was decided that such a merger would have an adverse effect on competition in gasoline retailing in the Midwest...
...invasion with a number of carefully nuanced statements that deplored the new "outburst of violence" but stopped short of condemning Israel. Early in the week, the U.S. went along with two Security Council resolutions that called for a cease-fire by all parties. But then it cast its veto, against 14 yes votes, on a third text that threatened sanctions unless the Israelis withdrew from Lebanon. The vetoed resolution, explained U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, was "not sufficiently balanced." Summing up the U.S. attempt at evenhandedness, a State Department spokesman declared: "Israel will have to withdraw its forces...