Word: vetoing
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...Canada Time to Hang Up the Spurs? time criticized bush's unilateral foreign policy [July 17]. But your story demonstrated the ineffectiveness of multilateral diplomacy by pointing out that "since joining multilateral talks over Iran and North Korea, the U.S. has failed to persuade Russia and China, who wield veto power in the U.N. Security Council, to agree to specific sanctions against either Tehran or Pyongyang." So far, it would seem, multilateral diplomacy is batting zero. Carol Jarrard Augusta, Georgia, U.S. This administration's "cowboy diplomacy" might have been more successful if not for terribly flawed decisions and planning...
...cover story addressed the complicated reality behind the optimistic predictions and heated ethical and political arguments about stem cells. Doctors, patients and concerned citizens weighed in on issues of medical progress, morality and the President's veto of the human embryonic-stem-cell bill...
...voted for President Bush and have agreed with almost all the decisions he has made. But the veto on embryonic-stem-cell research wasn't among them. I'm terminally ill, and although it's too late for me, denying U.S. scientists access to this 21st century technology because of religious beliefs is madness. If the President ever needs such treatment and decides not to use it, so be it. Denying it to everyone else is inhuman. JOHN PORTER Portland...
...TIME criticized Bush's unilateral foreign policy. But your story demonstrated the ineffectiveness of multilateral diplomacy by pointing out that "since joining multilateral talks over Iran and North Korea, the U.S. has failed to persuade Russia and China, who wield veto power in the U.N. Security Council, to agree to specific sanctions against either Tehran or Pyongyang." So far, it would seem, multilateral diplomacy is batting zero. Carol Jarrard Augusta, Georgia...
...elected. He has made a show of distancing himself from the unpopular President Bush, including rejecting a White House request to boost the number of California National Guardsmen patrolling the border. Schwarzenegger also extended a loan to fund stem cell research in the state following a Bush veto of a federal funding bill. Additionally, he has worked with the Democratic-controlled legislature to get four bond proposals on the fall ballot intended to finance his multibillion-dollar infrastructure overhaul plan. Then there was the surprise windfall: an unexpected spike in tax revenues from the improving state economy allowed...