Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president of Boston University occupying the Governor's office terrifies many Bay State residents. But it exhilarates others, who believe a humorless political outsider performing triage on moribund state government can restore it to fiscal health. Either way, John Silber, who on June 2 ensured his place on the ballot for Massachusetts' September primary, makes incredible theater...
...that gave birth to the taxpayer revolt in the 1970s took a step back last week from the antitax orthodoxy that has kept American government in a fiscal straitjacket ever since. California voters, who have tended to feel about taxes the way Lenin felt about capital gains, agreed to ballot Proposition 111, which doubles the state gasoline levy to fund improvements for gridlocked highways. The outcome of that vote reverberated not just on the West Coast but all the way to Washington...
...country. Other observers are worried that the slightest hint of civil disturbance may provoke the military to repeat the butchery of 1988, which resulted in the massacre of more than 3,000 demonstrators. The league can hope only that the apparent longing for democracy displayed by soldiers at the ballot box will translate into a public show of support for the civilian leaders who stand poised to return Burma to the civilized world...
...element of his campaign, he vowed to push for a law establishing a true presidency in Russia and to run for the office in a popular election with multiple candidates. That was surely one factor in his victory: Deputies were impressed by his willingness to submit to an early ballot-box referendum on his leadership. If he runs, his fellow Russian politicians say, there is no doubt that he will be elected...
...guidelines, presented last year in the Young report, were endorsed nearly unanimously at the Board's 1989 June meeting. These rules reduce the number of alumni association nominees from 10 to eight and require that non-official candidates be listed at the bottom of the ballot...