Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Britain relinquishes control and Beijing takes over in 1997. The Hong Kong members of the drafting committee wanted nothing more than | a modest increase in the number of directly elected legislators after 1997. As it was, only 18 out of 60 seats were to be filled by open ballot. Since Tiananmen Square, however, Hong Kong's top priority has been to increase that allotment as a hedge against rule by Communist whim...
...kind of place that the N.R.A. could count on. A typical police chief was Daryl Gates of Los Angeles, who liked to urge law- abiding citizens to keep a gun at home. Many Californians needed no such urging. In a 1982 referendum, the state's voters clobbered a ballot measure that would have banned the sale of handguns and required those already held to be registered...
...There are laws in Massachusetts prohibiting private parties from discriminating against an individual based on the individual's point of view," Deale said. "Either Harvard can allow HRAAA to include its own statement with the ballot...
During the fall, SPOA members focused their efforts on the campaign to pass Proposition 1-2-3, a ballot referendum that would have drastically overturned rent control. But in the wake of 1-2-3's defeat, the small property owners have proved to be no less vocal a presence in the meetings...