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...crowd gasped and leaned forward in unison. A few seconds later, Sanford changed his vote to "nay." Republican Alan K. Simpson predictably provided the necessary, 34th vote to support the President...
...Faculty meeting yesterday, six people spoke in favor of the new body, and no one spoke in opposition. After the vote, in which not a single "nay" was heard, President Bok said, "I would think this was some routine correction to the minutes...
Nite Club Confidentialis a small, buoyant musical that proudly, nay, triumphantly takes its place at the breaking crest of the retroculture. It is a two-hour-long tribute to a vanished time that may never have existed, packed with period songs and pseudo-period original music, as well as more Fifties inconography than you can shake a De Soto tail...
However, Bok appoints the deans and has a yea or nay on tenure decisions after the faculty has voted -- powers that provide him with some leverage. In fact, tenure is notoriously tough to win at Harvard, with the result that many promising untenured faculty members migrate out. Last year, for example, Bok vetoed tenure for Sociologist Paul Starr, whose 1982 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine had won a Pulitzer. The apparent reason: Starr was judged to be weak in the quantifiable data research deemed appropriate for a Harvard scholar. He is now tenured at Princeton's Institute...
...SOUND SARCASTIC, and that's because John put me on the defensive. The sincere consideration of my religious beliefs, yea or nay, is important to me. But this serious issue, which John had made his product, coupled with his sly presentation, nettled me, closed up my ears. His cordial hustle had been effective enough that I answered him straightforwardly--but negatively. Chris just rolled his eyes, and shook his head. And in less than half a minute, his unsuccessful spiel through, John was gone...