Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liston, in a dramatic move away from his past opposition to referendum movements like that of former council member Anjalee C. Davis '96, says council leaders need a mandate stronger than that established by the 20-40 percent voter turnouts of general council elections...
...addition, Liston was the official administrator of a campus-wide referendum that was tainted by a host of improprieties. The council ultimately invalidated that referendum...
...idea gained ground in California, it spread east. Its popularity was electronically catalyzed -- on talk radio, especially -- and electronically expressed in telephone polls, on the airwaves, by fax. President Clinton, with the support of Congress, complied promptly and cheerfully with the people's will. A push-button referendum would not have worked more effectively...
...have no idea what personal problems Brandon has with Paul Hanson and Senior Tutor Greg Mobley, but to drag the entire house into them by publically demanding a House referendum is egotistically pathetic. --Mike Evers...
...Oregon federal judge placed the state's new ground-breaking assisted- suicide law in limbo. The measure, approved by referendum in November, would have allowed doctors in the state to help some terminally ill patients end their life, but Judge Michael Hogan issued a preliminary injunction against the law pending hearings on its constitutionality...