Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September. On the eve of that session, he and three other members of Solidarity's twelve-man presidium accepted a compromise version of the government's self-management bill. It would give workers' councils the right to choose managers at most enterprises; the state could veto nominees it found objectionable. Parlament passed the plan into law the day before the union delegates returned to Gdansk. A dangerous union-government showdown was thereby averted...
...done to alleviate the 1982 deficit. The final battle on spending limits was concluded last week when Congress made one last $4 billion trim. In doing so, Congress settled a dispute with the President over roughly $2 billion in controversial cuts, which had caused Reagan to veto a spending resolution last month. Democrat Sidney Yates of Illinois could not resist taunting House Republicans: "Instead of having a deficit of $109 billion, you'd have a deficit of $107.5 billion." The new "continuing resolution" allows the Government to operate while the final appropriations bills are being written...
...Khan, 48, a Harvard-educated Iranian citizen who was the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977. But there was one hitch: his detractors included Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky, who, because he represents one of the council's five permanent members, was entitled to veto any candidate. This he did, considering Sadruddin too pro-Western. That opened the way for the runner-up, Pérez, who had won eight votes in the straw poll. In the official secret ballot held Friday he received ten votes, including that of the U.S. "I feel free again...
...Just as many times, the necessary nine countries had voted to re-elect the urbane Austrian incumbent, Kurt Waldheim, 62, who has held the job for two five-year terms. And on each occasion, the People's Republic of China had blocked a Waldheim victory by exercising to veto power. Finally Waldheim appeared to give in. In a letter last week to the December Security Council President Olara Otunnu of Uganda, the Secretary-General wrote that "in order to facilitate he task of the council," he was withdrawing his name from the next round of balloting, which could take...
...bill to amend or lessen the effects of 21/2 has gotten an override vote after the Governor's veto, Graham added...