Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. "He is doing fine standing still." Vice President George Bush declared that Reagan's program must be passed "unsalamied"-meaning that it should not be subjected to the "salami tactic" of paring it down slice by slice. Bush also implied that Reagan would veto a bill cutting taxes for one year only. The President, in a statement issued on income tax day, April 15, asserted that Americans would go on paying "too much" in taxes unless his full plan was enacted...
...conspiracy, but almost no one in Madrid expects major purges to follow. However dubious its loyalties, the army is too powerful to be punished and shunted out of political life. Instead, Spain's wary civilian leaders are seeking to pacify the generals, giving them, in effect, a silent veto in many areas of national policy. "We now have three chambers in the Cortes," laments a prominent Socialist legislator, "the Congress, the Senate and the joint chiefs of the general staff...
...computers can operate the ship on its own, mission rules require all the computers to be in perfect order on launch. Extra computers provide another kind of insurance. If one of the look-alike machines suddenly goes berserk, issuing wild commands, its three brethren will promptly veto those instructions. In other words, the majority outvotes the minority. If the four cannot resolve their differences in a civilized computer way, the back-up will intervene and settle the issue...
...decision, the court rejected Grendel's argument that the state law--which gives any church the right to veto granting a liquor license to an establishment within 500 feet of its property--represents an unconstitutional mixing of church and state...
...they upheld the restaurant's right to a trial on the grounds that the church's absolute veto power violates federal antitrust laws, enabling it to eliminate competition for other neighborhood restaurants and bars which have gained the church's support through "various tangible and intangible favors," Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law and attorney for Grendel's said yesterday...