Word: vetoes
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...bailed out by a consortium of cable operators (including Time Warner, which owns TIME) that invested $562.5 million in the company in exchange for minority ownership. Turner remained chairman, but he was forced to give cable operators seven seats on the 15-member board and veto power over any decision that would cost the company more than $2 million. It was a major setback for a man who lived by his father's homespun sermons, including the idea, in Wussler's words, that "you hang on to as much of your business as you can yourself...
...started, another broad area of disagreement lies ahead. The A.N.C. wants the new constitution to provide for majority rule and a strong, centralized government. The National Party is holding out for a collective three- or five- person presidency, a decentralized federal system and what amounts to a veto for whites over major legislation...
...that precisely at this moment, the democratic forces there need as much support as they can muster from friends abroad in order to assure that the outcome of the forth-coming negotiations will not be merely a cosmetic adjustment that leaves the Nationalist Party in a position to veto genuine reform...
...year-old bar had to wage its own battle when it went all the way to the Supreme Court for its right to serve alcohol. It was granted its license only eight years ago when the Court declared unconstitutional a Massachusetts law that gave churches and schools veto power over the issuance of pouring licenses within 500 feet of their property...
...Dudayev, the former general who leads the revolt. As armed loyalists surrounded the federation force, Yeltsin's resolve began to crumble, and he agreed to the withdrawal of the stranded troopers. In Moscow the Russian ; parliament delivered its own blow to the president's authority by voting overwhelmingly to veto his emergency decree...