Word: vetoing
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Whoever heard of reporters dictating a newspaper's editorial policy? Or holding veto power over the hiring of an editor-in-chief? Or controlling layout? Such radical conditions prevail at Le Figaro, France's leading conservative newspaper. Its 250 reporters, columnists and sub-editors have long enjoyed these prerogatives under a special agreement with the paper's owners. But now, management wants to reassert its right to manage. To show just how they felt about that idea, Figaro's staff last week staged a one-day strike...
...keep France French, Charles de Gaulle has assumed the right to pass the final word on certain business deals. He must, for example, approve any arrangement that would deliver more than 20% of a French company into foreign hands. Last week De Gaulle used his veto to upset a planned union of France's troubled Citroen auto firm with...
...review or approval by the Administration. However, if the College Council or Administration voices any objection, the matter is placed before the Review Board, composed of nine members, five of whom are students. The Review Board can strike down RUS legislation, and the College Council still reserves ultimate veto power...
When the committee eventually makes its recommendations, the mayor will still have a hard time pushing them through Boston's obstinate School Committee. The mayor's only direct lever in school affairs is his power to veto increases in the School budget each year. That is hardly a sufficient weapon to convince the School Committee to approve broad-reaching reforms. The mayor is counting therefore on using indirect political pressure on the Committee. Any proposal, of course, will have his authority behind it. It will also be backed by the authority of the six-man committee--a group whose members...
...hosts were stung by his failure to join at once with the other major Western allies in warning the Soviet Union after the invasion of Czechoslovakia that any aggression against the Federal Republic would be met by force. They were further disappointed that the French had just used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit France, if necessary...