Word: referendum
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...election was in large measure a referendum on the P.R.I.'s new claims to political trustworthiness and the economic policies put in place by outgoing President Carlos Salinas de Gortari -- most notably the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which went into effect Jan. 1. Many experts had been predicting that Zedillo, the unassuming technocrat plucked from obscurity after the party's first choice was assassinated in March, would win with less than half the votes and that the restive electorate would send large numbers of opposition members to Congress. The voters disproved those forecasts and gave the P.R.I. sizable...
Although it is one of Cambridge's biggest landowners, Harvard Real Estate (HRE) is not taking a position on the upcoming referendum on rent control...
...Jillson said voter interest outside the Boston metropolitan area shouldn't come as any surprise--about 75 percent of those who signed the petition bringing rent control to a referendum came from outside the area, she said...
Rent control activists are wasting no time arguing their positions in the wake of a Supreme Judicial Court ruling that a statewide referendum on the issue is legal...
...Supreme Judicial Court ruled on July 14 that a referendum on rent control does not violate the "home rule" provision of the state constitution. The home rule clause guarantees the right of individual communities to make decisions for themselves...