Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALUMINUM. Until recently, seven Government agencies had veto power over any plans to dispose of surplus items-and they frequently used that power. Between 1958 and 1961, the General Services Administration, which oversees the stockpile, made three requests to sell small lots of sub-specification aluminum. Though the aluminum industry was selling millions of dollars worth of the metal to the Government every year, and thereby adding to the surplus, it complained that it would be "unfair for the Government to put this aluminum on the market." Heeding the objections, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization prevented the sale...
Since the first of the year, the Administration has moved to ease the stockpile burden. It set up a Cabinet-level committee to review the program, last April eliminated the veto held by five Government departments. The Administration has drawn up a long-range disposal plan that it hopes will lead to sales of more than small, odd-lot quantities. Last fortnight it announced plans for disposing of $600-$800 million worth of stockpile materials each year-about eight times the present disposal rate. But legislation will be necessary to put the plan into effect-and a lot of people...
...priests who form the chapter of a cathedral in a few European dioceses have the right to select their new bishop, although the Pope can veto the choice. In some countries that have signed concordats with Rome, the head of state can nominate several candidates for final selection by the Pope, who may, however, reject the choices and appoint a man not on the list...
Segni's chief rival for the job, which combines ceremonial functions with such real political leverage as the power to dissolve Parliament and veto legislation, was formally undeclared but well known just the same. He was fellow Christian Democrat Premier Amintore Fanfani, who had recently picked staunchly pro-Western Segni as Foreign Minister to balance his new center-left coalition, the much debated apertura a sinistra. Fanfani figured that by stubbornly clinging to about 40 votes that Segni needed to win, the deadlocked chamber would promote him to chief of state...
Popping a Precedent. Never before in Pulitzer history have Columbia's trustees vetoed a board recommendation,† and never before have the annual Pulitzer prizes failed to anoint a biographer. To compound the mystery, the trustees popped their veto without bothering to inform anyone-even the advisory board-in advance. Then, as questions flew, the trustees took refuge in silence...