Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the chairs were of equal height from then on. When the allies set out a small United Nations table flag, the North Koreans followed suit-only theirs was six inches taller. In this case, however, Joy "hastened to veto any tendency toward such competition," as he wrote in his book, How Communists Negotiate, "thereby perhaps averting construction of the two tallest flagpoles on earth." The meetings have now turned into what one participant calls "the battle of the bladder." They often run for eight hours, and if any of the senior members leaves the table before the ses sion...
Cambridge is the only one of the nation's 70-odd model cities that guarantees residents control of the CDA and also the right to veto any of its proposals in a referendum such as was held last weekend...
Cambridge is the only one of the 70-odd communities participating in the Model Cities program that gives residents of the model neighborhood--a 268-acre area east of Central Square--control over the board running the program and the right to veto any of the board's proposals in a referendum. It is believed that all 29 proposals will be approved...
...been setting too high a standard for any political regime. With six or seven "key aides," Klein will work in the Executive Office Building, just west of the White House, to coordinate the information pouring forth from the myriad federal agencies. "I won't have the power of veto," insisted Klein. "Extending the flow of news is what I'm interested in." But he admitted that the object of his new job, unprecedented in the Federal Government, will also be "to develop a better image" for the Nixon Administration...
...Washington-but the deal was never really confirmed. This, in turn, suggests that the Americans may have missed subtle South Vietnamese hints prior to the halt; after all, Saigon never liked to give the American ambassador a flat no on anything. When Thieu finally did on Nov. 1, his veto was all the more unsettling because it seemed so out of character...