Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...math or science. Such an approach at least attempts to make teaching more lucrative--in the long run the only way to replenish the profession's depleted ranks. Officials predict, though, that even if the bill were to pass the Senate's scrutiny it would inevitably receive a presidential veto because of its tremendous cost...
...current fiscal year verbatim, it would have made it significantly harder for some two million young Americans to attend college. We did not accept it, we altered it, we changed it and added money into the supplemental appropriations bill to fill a gap for student assistance. The President vetoed that bill and we overrode the veto. I think we'll do that again...
Grendel's Den was originally denied a liquor license in 1977 because of a veto by the Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church. A state law allowing a church to prevent restaurants from serving alcohol within 500 feet of its door enabled the church to exercise its veto. But ruling on an appeal of the Grendel's case, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the state, law unconstitutional...
Although Ruggles license was not denied because of an outright church veto, the commission still granted the resuturant a rehearing after the Supreme Court's ruling on the Grendel's case...
...added that the license would have been granted in 1977 if the church had not exercised its unconstitutional veto...