Word: vetoes
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Thus Harvard falls in line behind three other major research universities--MIT. Stanford, and Cal Tech--in opposing the proposed rules, which would amount to a basic subverting of long-standing University commitments to free and open inquiry. The Pentagon proposal would give government officials veto power over the publication of research results funded by the government and deemed to be "sensitive" from a national security perspective--an unacceptable proposition given University norms...
...right to move." Though NFL, commissioner Pete Rozelle predicted ruefully that the Davis decision would herald an era of "free agent franchises," he has refused to put the Irsay move to a vote, bowing before the Mammon of professional sport--money. An owner will be understandably reluctant to veto a profitable relocation when he may be the next to require his peers' approval...
Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis yesterday told a group of visiting undergraduates that he probably would not veto any proposed raise in the state drinking age from...
...drinking age issue, Dukakis said that unlike in 1975 and 1978, during his first term as governor, be now would veto any bill raising the drinking...
Dukakis said he feels he lost the 1979 election to Edward J King because of his decision to veto those bills, and although he feels a higher drinking age will not solve alcohol-related problems among teenagers, he is unwilling to take the political risk of vetoing an age-hike measure...