Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such behavior cannot be stopped by the law alone, but only by the enforcement of the law--a fact which the referendum organizers themselves acknowledge by calling for a continued enforcement campaign...
Realizing the existence of some magnitude of a housing problem in the City, and the probability that it will get worse, various public an private groups--primarily the CEOC's Cambridge Housing Convention and the Peace and Freedom Party's Cambridge Rent Control Referendum--have begun pausing for action on the housing situation. Of late, the rent control referendum has attracted the most attention...
...Cambridge Rent Control Referendum campaign has gathered 300 signatures in its drive to place a rent control ordinance before the voters of Cambridge. A total of 8000 valid signatures are needed to call a special city-wide vote on the proposal...
...meet these challenges and save Paris from choking to death, De Gaulle last week called for a national referendum this spring on his plans to increase regional power. In preparation for the vote, Gaullist planners propose to split France into 21 "economic regions" centered around eight major provincial centers: Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Strasbourg, Lille and Nancy-Metz...
...made in coordination with proposed regional councils consisting of locally elected deputies, representatives of local communes and departments, and appointed officials such as chamber of commerce presidents. These councils will levy local taxes, prepare local budgets and plan economic development. If the plan is approved in the forthcoming referendum-and that approval seems almost certain-the regions may be able to "renew their personality," as French Technocrat Louis Armand once put it, "without having to do it through that monster that is Paris...