Word: referendum
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...support), and a lot closer to what Bill Clinton might actually consider signing. But House GOP bigwigs like tax hawk Bill Archer, whip extraordinaire Tom DeLay and Hastert aren?t looking to make legislation; they?re looking for a showdown with the White House that will make 2000 a referendum on tax cuts. Judging by the polls, that would be a sizable gamble in itself. But now they?re stuck in a staring match with their own members ? definitely a no-win situation...
...order, has also stopped considering race in admissions. But other suits challenging racial preferences are under way elsewhere in the U.S., notably at the University of Michigan. Other states are considering Prop. 209-style initiatives, among them Florida, where a drive is on to put an anti-affirmative action referendum on the 2000 ballot. If cascading goes national, what impact will it have on America's college students? The answer is unfolding in California, on campuses like Irvine...
CCURE also advocates rent control, but disputes the EFZ on some points. They advocate a referendum on the November ballot to establish Cambridge support for rent control. There was some dispute in the meeting over whether this is necessary. EFZ members argued that garnering statewide support is far more important than yet another Cambridge vote...
...rockets after Milosevic rejected the take-it-or-leave-it proposals put to him at Rambouillet in March and launched his vicious ethnic cleansing campaign. Rambouillet envisaged the transfer of control over Kosovo to NATO authority, and estimated that the territory?s future status would be decided in a referendum held within three years ?- which would have allowed the Kosovo Liberation Army to realize its goal of independence from Yugoslavia...
After a month of highly publicized debate andanimosity between pro-and antigrape factions, the"Great Grape Referendum" returned thepreviously-banned fruit to dining halls for Sundaybrunch. Adam R. Kovacevich '99 led the GrapeCoalition, which pressed for an end to the grapeban, while several student groups called forcontinuing the ban to protest the workingconditions of California grape workers. Morestudents participated in the referendum than inany other vote in recent memory...