Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week as to proclaim Reagan's tax program dead. He counseled the G.O.P. to cooperate in devising a compromise measure to reduce taxes less broadly and deeply, for one year only. That drew a threat from Stockman, after a White House meeting, that Reagan would veto such a measure. The outlook today is much what it has been from the outset: the President will get most of the spending cuts he wants, but his tax bill is in serious trouble...
Collective Decision Making. Traditional American corporations encourage executives to be decisive, to act forcefully and to accept the consequences. Japanese corporate decisions are reached by a tedious process of collective compromise that can sometimes involve as many as 60 to 80 individuals, each of whom holds a potential veto. The process of consensus building is slow, but once agreement is reached, no one attempts to sabotage or slow down the project...
...themselves, by interviewing and evaluating the candidates and offering their unique perspective. In fact, students and faculty should have an institutional role in the selection of each new law dean. Committees of both these groups should be able to evaluate a President's nominees, offer their own suggestions and veto prospective deans whom they feel would ill-serve the Law School community...
...Sandinistas' main opposition comes from Nicaragua's business community, which still controls about 60% of the economy, despite the nationalization of banks, some industry and some large agricultural holdings. The business leaders' powerful umbrella group, the Superior Council on Business (COSEP), has virtual veto power over matters concerning economic recovery. Says a foreign economic analyst in Managua: "If COSEP ever said this country is gone, don't give it any more foreign aid, there wouldn't be any more...
...border. Nujoma also vowed to renew his demands that the U.N. Security Council follow up its 1977 arms embargo against South Africa with economic sanctions. Britain, which has opposed such extreme measures in the past, has indicated that it might vote for a sanctions resolution. That might leave a veto up to the U.S.-and thus provide the Reagan Administration with one of its first tough foreign policy tests...