71.   The mid-term congressional elections will be fought out as a national referendum.

72.   The Irish government announced plans this week for a national referendum on a constitutional ban on abortion, unless a woman would die by carrying her pregnancy to term.

73.   The Labour party says it will hold a national referendum to decide whether to join the monetary union.

74.   The opponents have been thwarted so far, but they are still trying to put the issue to a national referendum.

75.   The opposition mounted a signature drive to petition Congress to hold a national referendum on the issue of a third term.

76.   The political calculus made it an inside-the-Beltway power struggle rather than a national referendum on whether free trade is a good thing for most Americans.

77.   The president then challenged Congress to put the matter to a national referendum.

78.   The technology does not exist to hold a national daily referendum on policy, such as whether to bomb Kosovo or ban handguns.

79.   There is a national referendum on tolerance, and gays are voting with their feet.

80.   The votes came in national referendums like the one last Sunday about suspending the labor chiefs.