Word: naysayer
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...mean to naysay progress in an attempt to protect the "old ways." Nor am I certain that today's technology boom represents the end of some process by which we will all become cut off from one another. The changes technology demands in our time may be of no greater magnitude than at any other time...
...House Version. The GOP program is the product of Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, a presidential aspirant who felt that the Republicans had to do more than naysay Carter's program. House Minority Leader John Rhodes would have none of that strategy, so there will be no House version of the plan. Says Rhodes: "Since when did the minority have to be positive?" Nonetheless, the G.O.P. now has a plan of sorts, and it will give Baker and his colleagues something to talk about now -and three years from now, if Jimmy Carter's energy plan does...
...against Goldwater, the other against the incumbent President. He missed no opportunity to contrast his views with Goldwater's, and Barry, with his vote against the civil rights bill, served up Scranton a golden issue on a silver platter. No sooner had Goldwater announced that he would naysay the civil rights measure than Scranton shot off a telegram. "I urge you," he wired, "to repudiate your opposition to the civil rights bill by voting yes on final passage. Your views on the subject to date are opposed to the traditional Republican philosophy of equal opportunity...
...prestige of the Senate is at stake.'' Thirty-four Republicans ended up voting for cloture. Only two-Texas' John Tower and Arizona's Barry Goldwater-voted against. And Goldwater, waiting in the Republican cloakroom, did not appear to naysay until Dirksen sent him word that his vote would make no difference...
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