Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) said at a news conference after the vote that the bill would come up in September and he couldn't imagine why any lawmaker would favor amending the constitution if a regular statute would protect the flag...
...bill is essentially useless," said Rep. Carlos Moorhead (R-Calif.), who said Republicans would vote for it in committee only as in symbolic support of the flag...
Labor's decision to delay the Central Committee vote until perhaps early August was viewed as an attempt to seek reconciliation. Labor's reluctance to leave the government is not surprising; a recent opinion poll indicates that a new election would result in victory for Likud...
...directors to manage a company's strategy. Among other arguments, Paramount had claimed that Time's directors breached their responsibility to company shareholders by converting the Time- Warner deal from the originally proposed stock swap, which required shareholder approval, into a two-stage leveraged takeover, which needed no such vote. The change gave Time shareholders no opportunity to choose between the Warner merger and Paramount's cash. But Allen found that the board's moves were consistent with Time's long-term plan to merge with Warner. He wrote, "The corporation law does not operate on the theory that directors...
...House vote to override the cuts was unanimous, 149-0, while the Senate vote...