Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days. Right-wing and feminist groups are burying their usual differences to team up and fight the subjugation of women in various media. Unfortunately, the Cambridge City Council has thwarted valuable discussion on the topic this fall by refusing last week to place an anti-pornography referendum on the ballot...
...unprecedented move two weeks ago, the city council placed a referendum on the November ballot asking voters to petition the state to prevent Harvard from selling rent-controlled dwellings to professors on a priority basis...
...city was involved in a similar dispute when it tried to keep a petition making Cambridge a nuclear free zone off the ballot. After the city later placed the issue back on the ballot, voters defeated the referendum...
...City Councilor David E. Sullivan, who opposes banning pornography, said he would rather "err on the side of democracy" by placing the issue on the ballot...
Sullivan said that certain, less liberal members of the city council might have voted against placing the question on the ballot because it might draw more feminists than usual to the polls...