Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard does sometimes place restrictions on consulting work that it does as a university. Harvard does not accept contracts when restrictions are placed upon the personnel of a given project, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said last week. Because the government of Saudi Arabia wanted to veto the employment of certain Harvard personnel on religious grounds, President Bok refused Harvard involvement in a health manpower project there a year and a half...
Last week the President seemed to alter his position slightly. He told a press conference that he saw no justification for assisting New York and had not yet heard of any bailout plan that would "justify approval by myself." But he did not say flatly that he would veto any bill passed by Congress. The President hedged: "I just am very reluctant to say anything other than no until I see the fine print...
...higher taxes and higher inflation." He warned that "down that road lie the wreckages of many great nations of the past." Instead, he said, the U.S. must reduce both taxes and spending. Insisting that "it would be dangerous and irresponsible to adopt one without the other," he vowed to veto any attempt by Congress to enact tax cuts without committing itself to spending no more than $395 billion in fiscal 1977, which begins next Oct. 1. Without such a ceiling, the White House claims, the 1977 budget would reach at least $423 billion, up $53 billion from the 1976 budget...
...drive to cut taxes in 1976 is be coming an irresistible force that not even a presidential veto could stop. At minimum, Congressmen facing re-election campaigns at a time when unemployment will still be high are certain to extend the $8 billion reduction in taxes on corporate and personal income enacted for 1975. All 20 members of Congress's Joint Economic Committee-liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans alike-have endorsed the idea; a tax-reform bill is due out of the House Ways and Means Committee by Oct. 28. Last week even President Ford apparently climbed aboard...
...House and Senate must work out the differences in their bills and present a program to the President before the Nov. 15 deadline. But unless the price provisions are drastically altered, the new measure faces almost certain veto by Ford. That would leave the nation again facing abrupt decontrol and zooming prices for oil despite OPEC'S restraint...