veto
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BlackRock and MSC had been open to offering Cosco an equal stake, but the demand for majority control and veto rights in running the ports is unacceptable, those people say.
If she doesn’t veto it, the bill will pass automatically and threaten New York’s most vulnerable—like some of those who gathered in front of her office on Dec. 4.
Last week hundreds turned out in Syracuse, Albany, Buffalo and Manhattan for vigils, urging the governor to veto the bill.
She would do her country a service by vetoing the blunder.
“My reform is based on the premise that the minority should have a voice,” he said, “but not a veto.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
