Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted to reserve judgement on the petition in light of the fact that there were some withstanding legal questions," he said. ("What happens if the referendum is set aside or affected in some way [is that]the city would be left without [its original] rent control laws...
Despite the restraining order, the Cambridge Tenants' Union will continue to circulate a referendum petition seeking to repeal the city council's home rule petition, said Bryle Breny, a tenant and rent control advocate...
...Cantabrigians seek to dismiss the voters' will on the issue of rent control, why should they bother to abide by other state mandates? Perhaps Cambridge should hold its own referendum to secede from the state entirely...
...national referendum on the matter is scheduled; talk shows debate the issue, and Casey Kasem even hosts a "Just say no" TV fund raiser. Meanwhile, the President's sole black adviser (Robert Guillaume) overcomes his don't-rock-the-boat philosophy to rally opposition to the trade. Yet he finds that black activists are divided and posturing -- they greet his pleas for pragmatism with choruses of Amazing Grace. He does better with white business leaders ("What do you think I've been doing on these corporate boards all these years?"), who agree to finance an ad campaign against the deal...
...coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. The economy, although sound, was plagued by a black market and strikes. A meat shortage was so bad that House Speaker Sam Rayburn dubbed the 1946 debacle "a damned 'beefsteak election!' " But '46 was also, says Columbia University history professor Alan Brinkley, "a referendum on Truman," whom contemporaries regarded as too small-town, too intellectually limited and too amiable to command "the fearsome respect" that should attend his office. They couldn't vote him out, so they voted the 80th Congress...