Word: vetoes
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...LEAVING TO THE Overseers their right to veto appointments, degrees, and statutes passed by the Corporation...President Dunster saw the value of a system of checks and balances in University politics. Whereas many other colleges have only one governing board, their trustees, Harvard has two, and the workable board of seven must obtain the sanction of the cumbersome board thirty...
President Bok yesterday, employing a veto power he has never before used, reversed a decision by the Law School faculty to grant tenure to a visiting scholar, professors said...
...trade, where we once led the fight for liberalization, we have voted new quotas and tariffs and would certainly have imposed even greater barriers had President Reagan not threatened to veto them...
ACLU/CLUM has also adopted a clear policy against "the heckler's veto." While heckling or mild interruption of a speaker is a form of expression entitled to First Amendment protection, even if offensive or obnoxious, nevertheless, in an extreme form "conduct that effectively prevents the speaker from speaking or the audience from hearing cannot be classified as protected speech." It is the equivalent of "acts of physical force" excercized against the speaker. "The speaker is as entitled to protection from this form of interference as from any other physical obstruction...
Following the arrival ceremonies, the two leaders got down to serious talks. As they posed in the Oval Office for photographers, Reagan explained the Gephardt vote, saying, "We're now very much heartened by the narrow margin of victory," because it meant he would be able to sustain a veto. Yet the House later passed the final trade bill containing the Gephardt amendment by a decisive 290 to 137, just one vote shy of the amount needed to override a veto...