Word: nay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty then considered another non-controversial motion which asked President Bok to appoint a student-faculty Council on the Arts which will supervise extra-curricular, arts-related activities. After some insignificant debate, the Faculty voted approval, with but one, lone nay...
...catalysts to only 10% of 1975-model cars sold outside California. The new schedule, he believes, will give Detroit time to learn the production technology necessary to meet the full, original requirements of the law by 1976. His agency contends that much of Detroit's other nay-saying is groundless. Government scientists insist that fuel consumption in cars fitted with catalysts will be no higher than in cars equipped with the antipollution devices now required, and that even some catalysts that Detroit testers classified as "catastrophic" failures can cut emissions 50% or more from present levels...
...there is any hope at all for Twin Oaks, and any redeeming feature of its concept, it is to be found in the basic good faith of its members (sometimes a naivete), which often makes for a certain easy trust, sympathy, nay, love. But then again, as the protagonist admits in Walden Two, "What is love, except another name for the use of positive reinforcement...
...long houses" and their sacred burial grounds, suspect some of the moves were engineered simply to dispossess them of their own land. In fact, South Vietnamese settlers have already taken over some of the vacated farmland areas. South Viet Nam's Minister for the Development of Ethnic Minorities, Nay Luett, says that he will move fast after a cease-fire to stake out land for the hill tribes. But local Vietnamese officials are not likely to cooperate. SaysLuett, himself a Montagnard: "We will continue to have very great problems...
...Whiteness of the Whale, an open invitation to connect his work to Melville, who wrote of Moby Dick in a celebrated passage: "But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness...why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind." Naturally, to invoke Melville does not make Sam Francis the Melville of painting. Yet his best work sometimes touches an epic quality that makes...