Word: nay
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...alternative vocations for unemployed state nanny-ists? Perhaps designing special safety ladders. Mandating tricycle wheels. Compulsory vegetable-eating regimes? The sky—nay, too dangerous—the ground is the limit...
...Imitating the mayor, Bercaw said during the meeting on May 1, “I’d like to suspend the rules. All in favor say aye, opposed say nay, the ayes have...
...dozens of towns in Vermont that have passed similar measures. Seven states--Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana and Vermont--and nearly 400 counties have voted either to criticize or ignore the Patriot Act. Come November, voters in localities across the U.S. will be asked to say yea or nay to affirmative action, abortion and embryonic-stem-cell research. "All of these are very personal issues. Who better to decide them than citizens themselves?" asks Archon Fung, a government professor at Harvard. "This is true direct democracy...
...makes you think, ‘She could be a murderess,’” Hanley comments. Often the casting decisions are made right after auditions. Hanley always takes the lead, but it’s a very democratic process; he asks everyone for their yea or nay and then says: “It’s gonna be X, for this reason....” Hanley says he’s satisfied with the cast he chose. He stresses the difficulty of making the final decisions. “Everybody that we called back was extremely...
Bored by the challenge of redefining higher learning through the once-per-quarter-century Harvard College Curricular Review, professors hijacked yesterday’s Faculty meeting and directed its agenda once again toward criticisms of University President Lawrence H. Summers. The College is alive again? Nay, it is, unfortunately, floundering. At the risk of deifying a president this page has often disagreed with, we stand unconvinced and unimpressed by the latest Faculty-led outburst against Summers. Further, we urge the remaining disgruntled members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in the absence of substantive disagreement with Summers?...