Word: vetoes
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...perhaps took the sting off the two nights he spent at glittery parties in posher Georgetown. Clinton's trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday was what an aide to the Governor described as a "love shack." Latent intraparty disagreements over taxes, deficits, auto-fuel standards and a line-item veto were quietly shelved; starved for a leader after 12 years, the Democrats are all singing the same music. For now, anyway, happy days are here again. (See related story on page...
...twice on the verge of a breakdown in the 13-day meeting. If we had added Israel's problem with Jordan and the Palestinians to the problems between Egypt and Israel, there would have been no peace in the next 20 years." If you give one Arab partner a veto right over another, forget about achieving peace...
Certainly lawyers must have the right to oppose selection of a jury member who would be unfairly biased against his or her side, but the extent to which attorneys are permitted to veto inclusion of potential jurors by using "peremptory" challenges must be limited. Such opposition is not based on clear possibilities of bias on the part of the potential juror, but to a non-"cause" related reason...
...Rapid legislative action on a spate of bills, like the Family Leave Act, that have stalled because of Bush vetoes or veto threats...
...Weld to run for a higher office, or even for re-election, the fiscally conservative/socially liberal needs to "fashion his own policy," according to Sondra Sheir, a Democratic Cambridge election commissioner. And without the power to uphold his veto of Democratic legislation it won't be easy for Weld to push his agenda...