Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Durand's office, the Community Preservation Act would enable communities across the state to choose by local ballot referendum to adopt a transfer tax of up to 1 percent on the purchase of real estate...
This is one of the most selfish bits of propaganda I have heard on campus. The idea behind "Harvard Students First" was the momentum behind the pro-grape forces during the recent grape referendum, and came up again in December's campaigns for the Undergraduate Council presidency and vice presidency...
...council supported returning Coke to the dining halls. Following our example, other campuses did the same. Neither Michigan nor the University of Pennsylvania serves Pepsi. Moreover, I recently got a call from a high school classmate who had read the front-page Wall Street Journal article on our grape referendum. We clearly have a voice that reaches farther than Johnston Gate or the Massachusetts state line...
...staff editorial, "After Grapes: Where Is Our Conscience?", The Crimson editors commit the unfortunate sin of condescension. The entire grape referendum has seen too much of this disgusting attitude toward students. Perhaps with the end of the referendum it's time for it to stop. It was bad enough when Harvard Dining Services started referring to the grape issue as the "Great Grape Referendum." "Look, look," the capital letters in the title seemed to be saying, "I am the most important political issue in the world." Students were told that this issue should take precedence over all others just...
...possible bribery charge isn't the only bad news DeBartolo has received. Last week a citizens' watchdog group sued officials of the city of San Francisco in order to invalidate last summer's referendum in which voters agreed to help fund DeBartolo's proposed $525 million stadium/mall at Candlestick Point, a move that could delay the venture and cause problems for DeBartolo's beloved 49ers...