Word: ballot
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...they contemplate the future, public college administrators and students are seeing a picture that looks ever bleaker. By far the biggest blot on the educational landscape this fall, they say, is the Citizens for Limited Taxation petition--Question 3 on this fall's ballot--to cut state taxes back to their 1988 levels...
Across the state, students have been rallying this fall, fists clenched defiantly in the air to show their opposition to the ballot initiative's sweeping tax cuts. Spurring them on has been an array of college administrators concerned that the cuts might cost them as much as 20 percent of their already shrunken annual budgets...
Nonsense, say opponents. The ballot measure targets one of the least dangerous drugs, they claim, and ignores the far more serious problems posed by alcohol in Alaska. More fundamentally, argue ads launched by Alaskans for Privacy this month, the campaign is "about the government telling you what you can eat, drink or smoke in your own home." Poll tallies taken before the latest privacy offensive show the anti-pot initiative passing...
...ownership of an Oregon S&L. When neither volley had much impact, the recriminations subsided. Feinstein and Wilson are essentially centrists, though they disagree on a state referendum that would limit the number of terms legislators could serve (he's pro, she's anti). Feinstein supports a sweeping environmental ballot initiative, while Wilson opposes...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass--Some of the state's top economists, including three who sport Nobel Prizes on their mantles, charge Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT) with misleading voters about a proposed tax rollback petition on the November ballot...