Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ambassador Donald F. McHenry said yesterday the United States intended to veto the resolution, but abstained instead because the wording was changed from "strongly condemns" to "strongly deplores...
...consented to a union demand for a joint advisory board on pensions. Three representatives from Chrysler and three from the United Auto Workers will oversee the investment of 10 per cent of each year's net increase in pension money for "socially desirable" ends. In addition, the union can veto investments in up to five companies every year as a result of ties to South Africa...
...switch rather than fight: exploiting a tilt to the right in his own party, he persuaded his central committee to back him in joining a government without the Communists. In exchange he is to have a stronger role in policymaking and a commitment from the Christian Democrats not to veto a possible Socialist Premier in the futuremeaning Craxi, naturally...
...debtor had little left with which to start a recovery. Only in about 15% of the cases did debtors choose to proceed under Chapter 13, or the "wage-earners' plan," which permitted partial repayment of debts over three years and sometimes longer, but subject to the creditors' veto...
Specifically, the court overturned the "Hawkins Rule," a 1958 decision that gave a spouse on trial the right to veto the intention of the other spouse to offer incriminating evidence in court. This latest ruling concerned Otis Trammel Jr., a California man who in 1976 was convicted, partly on the testimony of his wife, of conspiring to import heroin. In the opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger explained that the old notions about married women having no separate legal identity had broken down "chip by chip," and that marriage was not what it used to be. When a spouse is willing...