veto definition. The power of a president or governor to reject a bill proposed by a legislature by refusing to sign it into law. The president or governor actually writes the word veto (Latin for âI forbidâ) on the bill and sends it back to the legislature with a statement of his or her objections.
Over the course of the construction of the Empire State Building, five workers died. One worker was hit by a vehicle; a second fell from an elevator shaft; a third was struck â¦and killed by a hoist; a fourth died in a blast area; and a fifth died falling off a scaffold.
Over thirty people have jumped to their deaths from the Empire State Building. The Empire State Building Run-Up is an annual race up the stairs to the 86th floor (1,576 steps). William Lamb, an architect at the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, designed the Empire State Building.