Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprisingly, the proposal for popular elections enjoys the support of a substantial portion of the student body. In a referendum last May, 68 percent of voting students supported popular election of major council executives. We urge council members to listen to their constituents and adopt a system of popular elections...
...city would simply be moving with the tastes of the majority of its citizens. Indeed, CUSP is funded by a 25-cent cigarette tax that was approved by 69 percent of the voters in 1992--in effect saying that they were for policies of smoking prevention. Cambridge should listen to its residents...
...explains historian Glenda Riley, author of Divorce: An American Tradition, "create a volatile situation." And just last week, a group of mostly female state lawmakers in Washington introduced a bill that would require marriage licenses to come with warnings about spousal abuse. "I would say, simply, 'Beware. Stop, look, listen and be cautious,' " said state senator Margarita Prentice, a co-sponsor of the bill, which is expected to pass the Democratic Senate but run into trouble in the Republican House. "Marriage is serious business...
What was a radical to do? For weeks, House G.O.P. freshman Sam Brownback of Kansas had been trying to find someone with seniority who would listen to the ideas that he and other new lawmakers had for going beyond the ``Contract with America.'' And for weeks, he had got the same perfunctory responses: ``Maybe later, after things settle down a bit''; ``Maybe after you've been around a bit longer''; ``Maybe Maybe Maybe '' Then Brownback got a phone call from Budget Committee chairman John Kasich. Said Kasich: ``Okay, you want to start a revolution? We'll start a revolution...
...event co-sponsored by the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the Harvard Trade Union Project and the Harvard Labor Law Project, more than 40 workers and labor organizers gathered at the Cronkhite Center to listen to eyewitness accounts of three labor stop pages...