Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential opponents, Eric M. Nelson '99, says it is not so simple. And another candidate--Elizabeth A. Haynes '98--says she both agrees and disagrees with the referendum's myriad provisions...
...been fighting for more money to go to student groups and for more money to go to house committees for a long time. But I've faced incredible resistance within the [council]," says Rawlins, currently the council's vice president. "With this referendum, I want to give students the right to decide how their money is being spent...
Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 says her complex proposal to revamp the council's budget priorities--now being circulated as a referendum petition--would give students more control over "how their own money is spent...
...that sentiment that did the most to save the G.O.P. from what otherwise might have been a congressional loss as humiliating as Dole's trouncing by Clinton. To an extraordinary extent, both parties fought the campaigns for House seats as a referendum on national policy; former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local" has rarely been so widely flouted. Democrats pleaded with voters to repudiate the so-called revolution of O'Neill's successor twice removed, Newt Gingrich, whom they pictured as avid to gut all programs of government help to the poor and middle...
...some of the Golden State's seemingly permissive attitudes, California seems to be ground zero for white America's backlash. Perhaps it is not even fair to term the success of Prop. 209 a backlash since it is doubtful that a majority white elecorate would have ever supported a referendum to create affirmative action policies in the first place...