The group, Life for a Life, spent well over $100,000 collecting signatures for an initiative to replace capital punishment with a mandatory life sentence.
That is Proposition 34, the ballot initiative to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole as the state's maximum sentence for murder.
Ron Unz, the software millionaire who led successful efforts to end bilingual education in Arizona and California, announced that he planned financial support for a Massachusetts ballot initiative to replace bilingual classes.
For example, there is a city-wide initiative to replace face-to-face meetings with digital ones, promote cycling, and implement green IT by cutting down on paper usage.
The Academy for Careers in Sports is part of an initiative to replace large, failing high schools with smaller, independent units, each organized around a theme and sponsored by a community-based organization.
Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor, put $2m of his own money behind a ballot initiative to replace the city's current system of "closed" party primaries, restricted to members of each party, with a single "open" primary, where everybody could vote and the first two people would go to a run-off.
You've substantially reduced the ad time on your stations under your "Less Is More" initiative to replace 60-second ads with shorter spots.
Two illustrative cases are presented; an initiative to replace candles and kerosene lanterns with semiconductor white light-emitting-diodes (WLEDs) in various BOP locations; and the development of naturally colored cotton in poor regions of Brazil for sale locally and abroad.
But luckily someone has taken the initiative to replace the song with a much more fitting one: Radiohead's "Creep".
