Word: vetoes
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...cannot contribute large sums of money to have their voices heard; in other words, this forum for free speech which soft money supposedly creates is open only to those who can afford the entrance fee. Can we really call a construct of laws which virtually hands 800 people potential veto power over the wishes of a country of 300 million--in the presidential election, no less--a fair exercise of free speech...
...going to grant the town a veto over whether Harvard purchases...
...that doesn't mean they are surrendering control or expecting to change what they describe as Bertelsmann's?"unique corporate culture." While GBL gets two seats on Bertelsmann's supervisory board, the firm had to settle for just 25% of the voting rights, .1% less than a blocking veto. Even Bertelsmann is not ready to move that fast...
...Gephardt and Daschle, dealing from a position of numerical weakness with no veto to back them up, are going to try to turn the b-word back on the guy who ran on it. "We are here to offer a hand of bipartisanship on taxes," Daschle said. "We can do it, not his way, but our way - together...
...despise the law, which prevents them from raising huge contributions in the months before an election if they wish to qualify for public financing. Finneran and Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 tried to gut the law in last year's budget, only to be thwarted by a gubernatorial veto...