Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when, as an ally of Peru, they were also defeated in the War of the Pacific. Chile recently offered to cede a strip along its border with Peru to Bolivia as a corridor to the sea. But Peru objected and invoked its right, obtained under a 1929 treaty, to veto any further change in status of territory that had once belonged to it. One reason for its objection is that Peru opposes the creation of a buffer between it and Chile...
...Carter can look ahead to fairly good times in the economy, he faces a tough time fulfilling his promise to reorganize the Government and reduce the bureaucracy. As a start, he plans to ask Congress for a somewhat stronger version of the power to make limited changes?subject to veto by the Hill?that was granted to every President from Truman to Nixon. Says Carter: "I don't desire to abolish or create entire departments or to eliminate any members of the Cabinet without going to Congress for permanent legislation. But I've got to have the authority to transfer...
...interview last week: "I may have to be absent on an occasion rather than cast a veto that I don't believe in"−an allusion to such issues as southern African problems and the admission of Viet...
...Exercising veto power over major economic development projects, in one case causing a developer to cancel plans for a much-needed luxury hotel that city officials had already approved...
...should try to adopt the Humphrey-Hawkins bill [which calls for heavy spending on public-service employment] or something like it, trying to reach a predetermined level of unemployment too quickly, this could seriously worsen inflation. One wonders what restraint can there be on a liberal Congress. President Ford vetoed spending programs that Mr. Carter might not be inclined to veto...