Such a popular initiative is formulated as a precise new text ( general proposal initiatives have been canceled in 2009 ) whose wording can no longer be changed by parliament and the government.

On the first day of City Council hearings on Daley's 2009 budget proposal, several aldermen questioned why the administration was spending millions of dollars on public relations.

On December 11, 2009, more than 125 people gathered to respond by a proposal by Tessera Solar affiliated with Stirling Energy Systems to install 8, 000 40-foot parabolic mirrors on near Saguache, Colorado.

Several elements of " Core to Shore " were included in the MAPS 3 proposal approved by voters in late 2009.

Reid ( The Healing of America, 2009 ): " The term medicine ' was popularized by a public relations firm working for the American Medical Association in 1947 to disparage President Truman's proposal for a national health care system.

A proposal to perform same-sex weddings was approved on October 22, 2009 by 176 of 249 voting members of the Church of Sweden Synod.

In his budget proposal for fiscal year 2009, President George W. Bush requested $ 38. 7 billion-or 86. 5 % of the total Veterans Affairs budget-for veteran medical care alone.

In April 2009 the council voted to support in principle a proposal for a North and West London Light railway.

With the wider recognition there has been proposal to make Matariki an official holiday in New Zealand – in particular former Māori Party MP Rahui Katene's private member's bill Te Ra o Matariki Bill / Matariki Day Bill, drawn from the ballot in June 2009.

Hiawatha Seaway Council approved the merger on Jun 10, 2008 ; on June 24, 2009 a proposal to merge was tabled by the Cayuga County Council executive board.

On November 5, 2009, a referendum proposal was passed to allow liquor stores.

A referendum was held on November 3, 2009, and the proposal was defeated by 2248 votes to 2216.

An LDS building northwest of the Benson Grist Mill was placed into service in early 2009 ; that area was not part of the original Stansbury Park proposal, but since its water and sewer are provided by the Stansbury Park Improvement District, it is now considered an integral part of the development.

On April 16, 2009, the Boundary Review Board of King County approved Burien's proposal for annexation of the southern portion of the North Highline area.

In August 2009, United suggested scrapping the Symphony plan and instead building a performing arts center on the property, a proposal the city rejected.

In September 2009, Scarborough Community Council recommended, with Toronto City Council officially passing on to the TTC and Metrolinx, a proposal to replace the RT's ICTS technology with the LRT technology of Transit City.

The proposal, which would have instituted a $ 5 tax per act of prostitution, with the proceeds partly being used for a sex worker counseling agency, was voted down in the Taxation Committee in April 2009.

In May 2009 he spoke for historic preservation against Wal-Mart's proposal to build a store across the road from the entrance to the Wilderness Battlefield national park in Orange County, Virginia.

In 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published a £ 49 million proposal to restore passenger services to the line that would include reopening a station at Ashby.

On January 22, 2009, voters in Nashville, Tennessee rejected a proposal under a referendum election to make " Nashville the largest city in the United States to prohibit the government from using languages other than English, with exceptions allowed for issues of health and safety.

In 2009, the cabinet issued a proposal to remove the " Blasphemy Paragraph ", part of the criminal law that made blasphemous statements a criminal offense.

The decision to convene the summit was taken by the Council of FAO in June 2009, at the proposal of FAO Director-General Dr Jacques Diouf.

As of March 2009 a proposal under consideration by the state legislature would add an eleventh to the board, appointed from the faculty for a three-year term, whose role would be limited to issues not dealing with faculty.

The team was originally scheduled to begin play in 2009, but did not materialize in time for that season, and with the dissolution of the AFL as well as af2, the proposal appears to be dead, since the current version of the league has shown no interest in the Buffalo market, and the Raiders have since folded.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

* Murder is Easy ( 2009 )

England is the current holder after winning the Ashes in 2009 and again in the 2010 / 11 series in Australia.

Although, as of 2009, none of the extrasolar planets detected by ground-based astrometry has been verified in subsequent studies, astrometry is expected to be more accurate in space missions that are not affected by the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere.

The best current ( 2009 ) estimate of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for the value of the astronomical unit in meters is A = m, based on a comparison of JPL and IAA – RAS ephemerides.

As of a storm in spring 2009, the sign is no longer there although the supporting posts are still visible.

* 215: 511 Philadelphia, PA was deprecated by state-wide use of 511 as road info in 2009 ; PA is the 36th state to adopt the system.

Another example is when a few passengers and flight attendants teamed up to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who attempted to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear aboard Northwest Flight 253 on December 25, 2009.

In New York, the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief was founded in 1997 and is led by Dan Halloran, but in 2009 many members split off and formed the Arfstoll Church of Theodish Belief, White Marsh Theod, and Álfröðull þjóð.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

Abergavenny Cricket Club is one of the oldest in the country and celebrated the 175th anniversary of its foundation in 2009.

* 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival, and elsewhere, and it is a popular choice for regional groups.

In his New York Times review of the 2009 Broadway production, Ben Brantley noted that " the expression that hovers over Trevor Nunn's revival ... feels dangerously close to a smirk ... It is a smirk shrouded in shadows.

Cycling is a growing mode of transportation in Atlanta, more than doubling since 2009, when it comprised 1. 1 % of all commutes ( up from 0. 3 % in 2000 ).

He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

Lieutenant general Yurij Viktorovich Zhadobin is the Minister of Defense since December 4, 2009.

Building new highways is one of the top goals of the 2009 elected government of Boyko Borisov, therefore new roads and highways are regularly opened for use.

It is held bi-annually, last time October 2009 and next time October 2011.

Here is a table of the contents of the BBC Red Button ( as of December 2009 )

It has, since March 2009, also provided the mechanism by which the Bank's policy of quantitative easing ( QE ) is achieved, under the auspices of the MPC.

Starting in 2009, vehicular traffic is banned at Times Square between 47th and 42nd Streets, and at Herald Square between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program ; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians.