Word: referendums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nationally, combatants now focus on California, which will hold a referendum on marriage March 7. Robert Glazier, spokesman for the side that opposes gay marriage, says he wants Californians to ensure that "five people in black robes in Vermont don't make this decision...
Many council members have deemed the failure of the referendum a major defeat, after having invested a great deal of time and energy into supporting its passage...
Bradley L. Davis '00, who last month encouraged the council to bring the fee hike to a student referendum, joined several other council members in arguing that the term bill failed because the rhetoric of more money to student groups didn't play well the student body...
...dean, who supported the fee hike, registered his surprise that the referendum failed...
...alarmed the country's traditional elites as well as foreign investors with his left-leaning policies and his overt admiration for Cuba's President Fidel Castro, Chavez last week received a ringing endorsement from his electorate when 72 percent of voters supported his new constitution in a referendum. The constitution entrenches the president's power and allows him to potentially remain in office until 2012. It also affirms state ownership of Venezuela's oil industry, which Chavez hopes will fuel his "new economy" that redistributes wealth among the poor. While the flood is a win-win scenario for Chavez...