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...attorney was the only councillor to vote against the city council's watered-down petition to the state legislature after the abolition of rent control in a state referendum on Election Day. She said the city's petition did not adequately protect tenants in rent-controlled apartments...
...Neighborhood Coalition campaigned againstQuestion 9, the state referendum that abolishedrent control, and has held workshops to encouragetenants to buy homes...
Simons also proposed that the term bill'sUndergraduate Council fee be open to changewithout faculty permission, if it received amajority vote in a student referendum. Accordingto the council's bylaws, the referendum would onlybe active if there were at least a 50 percentstudent turnout...
...believe Harvard students are politically apathetic, you obviously haven't heard of the Leverett House Juice Referendum...
Declaring himself a staunch Unionist, Major insisted Northern Ireland could never merge with the republic ``in defiance of the will of the majority.'' For now, any referendum in the North would keep Ulster a part of Britain because Protestants make up about 60% of the population. But demographics are changing, and sometime within perhaps the next 30 years, Catholics could match or surpass Protestants number. The prospect may impel Unionists to consider the more flexible tactics the framework offers...