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McBride has made education the centerpiece of his campaign and vigorously supports a referendum, expected to pass, that would reduce class size. In a tax-phobic state, McBride has proposed a 50¢-a-pack cigarette tax and unspecified spending cuts to pay for the school initiative. Bush, on the grounds that he doesn't support the referendum, offers no clue as to how he would pay for it should the measure pass. He had to apologize after he confided to concerned Republican lawmakers, unaware a reporter was present, that he had a "couple of devious plans" to thwart the proposal...
...referendum that mandated Clean Elections passed in 1998 by a more than 2-to-1 margin...
...McBride has made education the centerpiece of his campaign and vigorously supports a referendum, expected to pass, that would reduce class size. In a tax-phobic state, McBride has proposed a 50?-a-pack cigarette tax and unspecified spending cuts to pay for the school initiative. Bush, on the grounds that he doesn't support the referendum, offers no clue as to how he would pay for it should the measure pass. He had to apologize after he confided to concerned Republican lawmakers, unaware a reporter was present, that he had a "couple of devious plans" to thwart the proposal...
...Iraqi voters are in favor of Saddam Hussein continuing in office, according to the nation's ruling party after a referendum last week...
...wonder whether a caretaker government could hold up a process widely thought to be crucial to the Union's future," says one E.U. diplomat. "But frankly, nobody now knows what the Dutch are going to do." Indeed, the uncertainty in the Hague, which came just days before the Irish referendum on the Nice Treaty, is another reminder of how easily the timetable for enlargement can be wrecked by domestic politics. Even if the current member states agree in Brussels on a common position for financing enlargement, they still have to work out details with the candidate countries before the crucial...