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.
Though rumors of hundreds of people dying on the work site circulated during the time of its construction, official records say that only five workers died. One worker was struck by a truck; a second fell down an elevator shaft; a third was hit by a hoist; a fourth was in a blast area; a fifth fell off a scaffold. Inside the Empire State Building