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...that it is willing to face down international pressure to protect its energy interests. Last month the U.N. discussed imposing sanctions on Sudan as punishment for sponsoring genocide in Darfur. China--which has invested a reported $15 billion in Sudan oil projects and imports oil from there--threatened a veto. The Security Council passed a watered-down measure...
...weapons. That's an irony on which both Chirac and Blair could agree. - By J.F.O. McAllister The Hunt Is Over BRITAIN Ending a long-running, acrimonious debate, Parliament voted to ban all hunting with dogs starting in February. The House of Commons invoked the Parliament Act, a rarely used veto, to overrule opposition from the upper House of Lords. The ban applies to England and Wales. Fresh Questions EUROPEAN UNION Just as the European Parliament finally approved Commission President José Manuel Barroso's recast team, a new embarrassment emerged: Frenchman Jacques Barrot, the new Commissioner for Transport, was found...
...JACK WELCH Former CEO of GE Get out your veto pen-you must reverse the trajectory of the budget deficit. You hate tax increases, and they should be your last resort anyway, given the fragile global recovery. But you will be forced into that option if you don't immediately start redlining spending requests...
...Abbas without any direct challenge, Abbas will lack anything close to Arafat's political authority. There?s little reason to expect that Mahmoud Abbas will be more able to implement U.S. and Israeli demands for action against Hamas now that Arafat has gone than they were when he held veto power over their actions. The militants are already demanding a collective leadership, not simply a consultative arrangement among such old guard figures as Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, but also that groupings such as Hamas be drawn in to strategic decision making. Abbas will hold executive power...
...process for broadening club membership differs among the clubs, though for all it begins with a vote among club members. In the end, however, the graduate boards have veto power, says Halpern, of The Phoenix, leaving them the real decision-makers...