Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked why he didn't attend, Everett-Tawny said that he was busy running a student referendum on whether the U.C. should show up for the game. Nobody voted, which the U.C. took as a sign from the gods not to play...
...years Cambridge politics revolved around a single issue--rent control--but a 1994 state referendum abolished tenant subsidies...
Authored by a Cambridge landlord, Question 9--the statewide referendum that ended rent control--squeaked by with a 51-percent majority. But voters in the three affected communities overwhelmingly opposed the initiative...
Each House Committee this year received a $500 block grant from the council to do with as they wish. However, even this small amount of funding is not guaranteed because of the council's reluctance to recognize the will of the student body as expressed in December's referendum...
Last fall, I co-sponsored a referendum that would have moved the council in this direction. It would have allowed students the chance to directly increase the council's allocation to student groups. Unfortunately, accusations of 'politics' were thrown about in an attempt to subvert the will of the student body...