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...state legislature votes to enact the proposal, it will be voted on by Cambridge residents as a referendum...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Council Amends Transfer-Tax Petition | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

Born said that in a few years revenue from the transfer tax would be able to fund a $10 million bond referendum...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Council Amends Transfer-Tax Petition | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

...petition asks the state legislature to approve a referendum that would let city residents vote on whether to levy the tax to create affordable housing, in the wake of the abolition of rent control in November...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Council Amends Transfer-Tax Petition | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

Glazer recently criticized the Califonia Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), a referendum which garnered 54 percent of the Californian vote last November and has since been upheld by the California Supreme Court. He said he feels that the initiative, which would make racial preferences illegal, "would undermine the pattern of American adaptation to social change by introducing a complete ban on the use of race in college admissions...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: In New Book, Glazer Restates Positions On Affirmative Action, Multiculturalism | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

Policarpo also questioned Ramos-Horta's urgent request for a United Nations-sponsored national referendum for the area, saying that in the mid-1970s Ramos-Horta's party opposed the idea of such a referendum...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: Ramos-Horta Requests Support for East Timor | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

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