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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legislature could override the veto of Governor William F. Weld '66, which blocked Cambridge's homerule petition, which would allow Cambridge to be exempted from the results of the election. But observers say Senate Democrats will likely be unable to round up enough votes...

Author: By Eric S. Bassin, | Title: Mayor Miffed on Rent Control | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...regarded as presidential stuff, said he was unconvinced that reprisals against the Serbs could not work. "I want to express my strong support for a strong NATO," he stressed in Brussels. Yet he still planned to introduce an embargo-lifting resolution in the Senate, perhaps tacked to a veto-proof spending bill, sometime after the new Congress convenes in January. He predicted at least 70 to 80 votes in favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allied in Failure | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...after a biblical benefactor, operates a small facility funded by the mostly well-to-do citizens of Oak Park; it accommodates children ages 3 to 11 for however long it takes them to be adopted, thus sparing them the foster-care shuffle. Even more unusual, it allows them to veto adoptive parents they don't like. "They stay here until they find a place they are comfortable with," says executive director Mary Anne Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm Over Orphanages | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

While the Senate passed two petitions from Boston and Cambridge Tuesday asking to spread out the abolition of rent control over five years, a veto from Gov. William F. Weld '66 is imminent...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Rent Control Turns on Question: What's a Ballot? | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...said the city council will lobby Weld to sign the petitions. "This will not be a veto of which Governor Weld will feel proud on the national scene," Born added. "I would hope that Governor Weld has a heart...

Author: By Sewell Chan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Senate Approves Home Rule | 12/7/1994 | See Source »

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