Word: governor
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...Murphy amendment" would give state governors the authority to veto granting or renewal of funds to any legal services program funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), subject o override only by the President of the United States. Currently, a governor's veto may be countermanded by the Director...
...right of the President to override a governor's veto was included in the amendment only after Murphy left the floor of the Senate. According to the New York Times, however, "it was stipulated that this authority would be eliminated in a Senate-House conference if Senator Murphy later objected...
...Cambridge police were planning before yesterday to send someone to Montpelier next Monday in order to bring Mann back to Cambridge on a governor's warrant of rendition...
Meanwhile, court cases are carving new legal ground. Says Vermont Lawyer (and ex-Governor) Philip Hoff: "Business has learned that it can't go ahead, carte blanche, because it can be delayed for years by a lawyer committed to saving the environment." Adds E.D.F.'s Victor Yannacone: "Every piece of enlightened social legislation that has come down in the past 50 or 60 years has been preceded by a history of litigation. It is the highest use of the courtroom-even when we lose-to focus public attention and disseminate information about intolerable conditions...
...GOVERNOR'S LADY by Norman Collins. 381 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.95. The colonials, the natives, and death on safari in Africa of the 1930s, including a governor with a steel-claw hand and scruples to match...