Word: referenda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judges, after years of exposure to those advertisements on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, were not about to let local clamor interfere with the congressional mandate for nuclear power. No matter that the people of Seabrook voted the plant down twice--the referenda, after all, were non-binding...
...administration and the Faculty are consciously callous to the interests of students. But even those who are sympathetic to the students in general have no way to accurately gauge student opinion on a given subject. The proposed assembly's large size (approximately 85 representatives) and provisions for referenda on important issues will guarantee that those willing to listen will hear what the students are really saying. And if enough are willing to listen, it may well be that merely the forceful presentation of the views of 6200 Harvard students will influence some University policies...
Voters also rejected the two reform referenda that would have changed the structure of the school committee and city council from its present composition of all citywide representatives to a mixture of citywide and district representatives. Reformers designed the changes specifically to insure black representation on both bodies and greater responsibility to constituents among the representatives by tying them down to set districts. The referenda lost by only a few thousand votes but 32 per cent of the voters--28,000--did not even vote on the questions...
...campaign became the focal point for reformers. State Reps. Barney Frank '61 and Elaine Noble backed her and she quickly took on the mantle of the proverbial young, fresh face. Her campaign, however, never went beyond a smile and the promise to talk with people. She supported the two referenda questions and sought out moderate reformers, yet not once during the campaign did she offer striking proposals for change. Instead, she presented a flexible image as if she were starring in a replay of the 1976 Carter presidential campaign...
...which Hicks, Kerrigan and Palladino lose to Sansone and O'Bryant is clearly something of a bonanza for Boston, the referenda defeats and Flynn notwithstanding. And with moderate Councilor James Michael Connolly and School Committee President Kathleen Sullivan topping their tickets, there seems to be a significant improvement. The importance of these results, however, has been overblown. There has been no major change in Boston, only a reaffirmation of the lackluster. Sullivan and Connolly are responsible for no major innovations or progressive actions. They are young, educated, ambitious people who know better than to walk along Broadway Avenue in Southie...