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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate this week as the long-running argument over imposing limits in the amount landlords can charge shifted to the 10th floor of the Suffolk County Courthouse. It is here that rent control opponents have sued to place a referendum about the contentious issue on the November state ballot...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Surreal Fight Over Rent Control Will be Settled in a Boston Court | 3/4/1994 | See Source »

...suit, Denise A. Jillson, president of the homeowners coalition, and other plaintiffs argue that they collected 93,000 signatures on more than 14,000 petitions. The plaintiffs say that out of that number, enough were valid to put the referendum on the ballot...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Surreal Fight Over Rent Control Will be Settled in a Boston Court | 3/4/1994 | See Source »

Barrett and State Rep. Mark D. Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) are currently the only Democratic candidates to have declared their candidacy for governor. In order to appear on the primary ballot, candidates must earn the support of at least ten percent of the delegates to the state Democratic convention this June...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Barrett Seeks Interns, Volunteers | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

Common Cause is now advocating a comprehensivecampaign finance reform bill which will appear onthe November ballot...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Lawmakers Abused Funds | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

Each morning he and half a dozen volunteers set out in a minibus loaded with A.N.C. pamphlets, calendars and stacks of sample ballots. Learning about the vote comes with vaccinations, dental care and family counseling in Khayelitsha, as the minibus visits community centers and clinics around the township. At one clinic, Dyantyi's aides display a sample ballot, explaining the list of the 10 political parties up for election with their colors or symbol and a photograph of their leader. One of the workers, Boiswa Fusile, shows the folk how to mark the ballot and warns that doing it wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoiling for a Victory | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

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