Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford, perhaps the least imaginative of recent Presidents, but maybe the one with the most common sense. He decided that inflation was the threat of the moment. He found himself in the midst of skeptics who laughed at his warnings. Ford grabbed the only working weapon he had-the veto. He bludgeoned almost 70 bills sent down from Capitol Hill. That was a negative way to work, but work it did-and without an act of Congress or an environmental impact study. It would be instructive for all parties to hear a little discourse from the stump on the mechanics...
...cost of gold has skyrocketed too, but Tiffany, the New York jeweler commissioned to design and strike medals for the Games, agreed to supply them at 1978 prices. The designers hit a snag, however, when they submitted their sketches: the Lake Placid Organizing Committee responded with a veto. The reason: the medals' obverse side showed the rolling Adirondack Mountains, but not the peak where one of the committee members owned a farm. The medals were redesigned and the mountains were shifted. The medal winners of 1980 will always have a view of one committeeman's homesite...
Elsewhere in Europe, the U.S. was getting little help. France said it would compete. Italy's Olympic committee insisted that only a veto by the government could prevent its participation, and none was in the works. All the Scandinavian nations seemed determined to enter...
...Oleg Troyanovsky, 60, Moscow's representative at the U.N. since 1976 and only the seventh Soviet ambassador there in 35 years, the vote was a galling blow. It followed by a bare week his own application of the Soviet veto to an almost identically worded resolution during a 13 to 2 vote in the Security Council. Only a day before the Afghan resolution, in fact, Troyanovsky had used another veto-the Soviet Union's 114th-to stave off an otherwise successful U.S. drive to impose U.N. sanctions on Iran...
...American media representatives in the country were expelled; British and Western European correspondents were put on notice that they might be next (see PRESS). The Carter Administration, faced with mounting domestic pressure over the hostages, continued its efforts to organize an international economic boycott of Iran, despite the Soviet veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for sanctions...