Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elections represent a referendum on the first two years of the Clinton presidency, voters yesterday sent a clear message: President Clinton, change your ways...
...referendum, which carries the force of law, will affect Cambridge, Boston and Brookline, the three communities in Massachusetts with rent control. It will allow landlords to raise rents at will...
Bonfili pointed out that efforts to impose reform last year were met with disdain. "Last year we voted to ignore the referendum," he said. "Last year we couldn't even get close to a majority...
Joining the endless speculation and discussion of the value of monarchy to Britain, the Economist finally catches the wave of popular resentment, and proposes a referendum to abolish the monarchy in favor of a British republic. Precipitated by the current brouhaha, in other words, lots of Britons are being tempted to throw the entire bad lot away--abolishing royalty guarantees no more royal scandals, because there won't be anybody to be scandalized...
This week provides a blatant example of what has gone wrong. The AAA is collecting signatures for a symbolic petition against Proposition 187, which is the California referendum designed to strip the state's 2.1 million illegal immigrants of their rights to welfare, non-emergency health care and public schooling for their children...