Word: vetoes
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...power. President George W. Bush is the pre-eminent example. Others, though they are rarely heard from in public, nonetheless have a real influence on the great events of our time. Think of Ali Husaini Sistani, the Grand Ayatullah of Iraq's Shi'ites, who in effect has a veto on plans to transfer power from those who occupy his country to its people. Still others affect our lives through their moral example. Consider Nelson Mandela's forgiveness of his captors and his willingness to walk away from the South African presidency after a single term...
...referendum is no joke. By championing a cause many in his own party consider unwinnable, Blair is risking his premiership - a humiliating rout could drive him from office. His about-face not only raises the prospect that one of the E.U.'s major countries will veto a treaty that requires approval by all 25 members, but creates awkward problems for the governments that figured they could get by without votes of their own. French President Jacques Chirac in particular is now under pressure to give his stroppy voters their say, and they may well say non. Blair's move...
They're Still Just Winging It Alitalia has crash landed in a field of Catch-22s. The majority state-owned Italian carrier, which loses about €1.2 million a day, desperately needs a government bailout to avoid bankruptcy. But any rescue plan risks a veto from Brussels on antitrust grounds. Labor Minister Roberto Maroni promises the government will sign an emergency decree this week, reportedly set to dole out €120 million to Alitalia and Italy 's smaller carriers this year. That would keep the flagship airline afloat and avert disastrous labor strife. But even if the bailout gets past...
...time, Ellwood, who already had left the administration, publicly criticized the compromise provision, calling it “welfare reform in name only” and urging Clinton to veto the bill...
...challenge. The IGC has once again been reduced to the supplicant role, sending a delegation on Wednesday to implore Sistani to intervene. But the Grand Ayatollah has problems of his own with the Coalition and the IGC, and has been agitating against the U.S.-brokered interim constitution which grants veto power to ethnic minorities and also for rapid transfer of power to a democratically elected government. Indeed, Moqtada Sadr has enthusiastically championed the same demands in the course of his rebellion, which is nonetheless a power play in which the radical Islamist hopes to eclipse the influence of rival Shiite...