Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics and supporters alike of 1-2-3 said that the unusually high voter turnout that hurled Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf to the top of the City Council preliminary vote count would probably ensure the referendum's failure...
...passed, 1-2-3 would allow some tenants in rent-controlled housing to buy their apartments, which is currently prohibited. Meyer and other referendum supporters contend that this change would allow thousands of low-income city residents to own their own homes...
Observers said yesterday that despite ahard-fought campaign, the high vote totals forWolf and other pro-tenant candidates meant thatthe referendum was in trouble...
Voters also said they worried that the referendum would give universities communities like Harvard undue power, with one explaining that he voted against Proposition 1-2-3 "so that you Harvardites don't grab it [property...
Among Harvard students and faculty, there was little consensus about the ballot referendum...