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DUBLIN: Divorce, with a lot of strings attached, became legal in Ireland Thursday. Despite official sanction, breaking up is still hard to do more than a year after after foes narrowly lost a bitterly contested referendum but succeeded in writing the laws so that divorce will be a cumbersome bureaucratic procedure for the country's estimated 90,000 separated couples. To end a marriage, couples must first assemble a mass of sworn statements on finances, pension rights, health care benefits and child welfare before a court hearing date can be set. Next step: meeting the eligibility requirements. According...
Rawlins said a budget referendum giving more money to student groups and the possibility of downsizing the council are among two possible changes which could be made...
...Campaign to Save 2,000 Homes, a tenants group, supports the tax as a means to provide for low-income households displaced by the demise of rent control, which was abolished by voters in a 1994 Massachusetts referendum...
Eliminated by a state-wide referendum in 1994, rent-control regulations were gradually phased out over the past two years...
...building was among a number of expiring-use buildings that lost their rent-control status as a result of the 1994 state referendum abolishing rent protections...