Word: nay
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...rare moment of humor in a listless campaign in which both candidate and voters have acted as if a week in the Gulag would be preferable to enduring one more speech. To break his deadlock with the nay-saying parliament, Yeltsin has organized a national vote on April 25 that will ask Russians whether they trust their President, whether they approve of his economic reform policies and whether they favor holding early elections for both President and the 1,033-member Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin is determined to win yes votes on all four points...
...usual, there were some nay-sayers in the crowd yesterday afternoon. "Their play today is not indicative of their ability to win it all," said Justin Levett, a devoted Cubs fan said...
...interim, Shamir will need to keep the peace process percolating so Labor cannot blame him for its failure. At the same time, he will not want the bargaining to proceed to any yea-or-nay decision that might antagonize Likud's far-right-wing voters. After last week's show of force in Lebanon, he can probably afford the appearance of a little give-and-take. As disheartening as the renewed hostilities are, perhaps they will underscore for negotiators how acute the need is to achieve a lasting peace...
...nay votes were cast mostly by Arab and Muslim states plus the communist countries of Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam. An Arab spokesman argued that repeal would only "whet the appetite of Israeli extremists' creeping annexation," and Saudi Arabia's U.N. Ambassador, Samir Shihabi, boycotted the session. Biggest winner: the U.N., freed of an albatross...
...parents of children adopted abroad, and the groups that represent them, point out that much of the nay-saying sentiment is little more than pious hypocrisy. However much Third World governments may decry the surge in Western adoptions, millions of children around the world are abandoned and homeless -- about 7 million in Brazil alone. Only a tiny percentage of these children find homes locally, and in some cases they are doomed to eternal stigma. In Korea, for example, a Confucian value system places such a premium on male gender and blood ties that the adoption of a baby girl...