Word: referendum
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...results may not be proof of a Democratic revival, but at the very least the party held its ground in last Tuesday's off-year elections, which many candidates had framed as an early referendum on the so-called Republican Revolution. The results...
...view the results of these processes as one big referendum on our college career. If we receive the privilege that we seek, then our time at Harvard as been a success. If our application is denied, then our college career has been a miserable failure...
JUST HOURS AFTER THE QUEBEC REFERENDUM ON SEPARATION that came within a whisker of breaking up Canada--and may yet do so--President Clinton pronounced. "Ethnic diversity can be the hallmark of a strong and prosperous society," said his spokesman. "The President has often said that our ethnic diversity here in America is one source of our greatest strength..and hopefully it will be for the people of Canada as well...
...their Oct. 30 referendum, half of Quebeckers--and a solid 60% of French speakers--said they want out of their partnership in a culturally diverse Canada. Why? For the answer, Americans might look no farther than Louisiana...
Which is why Quebec's referendum is not the provincial story it seems. The 60% of French-speaking Quebeckers who voted to sever their political union with bicultural Canada are a herald of the death of diversity. They are a living refutation of the warm and cozy notion, based more on hope than on history, of multicultural harmony and strength. They are a warning...