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Bush spends a full chapter attempting to defuse a potential Democratic issue by explaining why he vetoed an HMO reform bill in Texas.
When Giuliani vetoed Talk 's party site and told the press it was "unimportant" and "irrelevant," all he did was make the magazine important and relevant.
The Los Angeles Times ' top non-local story is the Senate's 55-44 passage of a $1 minimum-wage hike--a bill that has not passed the House and would likely be vetoed by President Clinton for the tax breaks it gives to businesses.
When a committee was convened to decide whether specimens of Lincoln's blood and bones should be tested for DNA to discover whether he suffered from Marfan syndrome, ethicists voted yes but scientists vetoed the plan, claiming that the precious material should not be destroyed in case future tests would prove more effective [4,5].
(To recap: The Justice Department vetoed Microsoft's 1994 attempt to purchase Intuit, maker of the personal-finance program Quicken, on the grounds that it was anti-competitive--a bid to corner the personal-finance-software market.)