Word: oui
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...green for yes, red for no -- wink up instantly on two display boards overlooking the hall. This time, 18 Arab countries insisted on a voice vote as well. By a draw of lots, Britain went first, and abstained. Next came Uruguay, with a decisive si. Soon there was a oui and a da, then the Arabic assent na'am. As the U.N.'s six official languages rang out, a chuckle began to rumble through the chamber. The exhausted delegates seemed to have found a release for pent-up tension in the very sounds they were hearing. By the time China...
...plagiarism) and hard pressed for money, she turned to a modeling career with the Wilhelmina agency. Life on the modeling circuit was fast and daring ("It was a time when women believed they should have sex freely like men did"). She accepted offers to pose nude for Oui and Playboy magazines because the money was good. Hite blames "society" and skin magazines for exploiting women. She says now that the experience was "extremely painful and embarrassing...
...regime's reply was a nationwide referendum last July 22. Truckloads of illiterate Haitians were driven from one polling place to another to vote oui a dozen times or more. The official results: 99.98% reaffirmed Baby Doc as President-for-Life...
...task will be to complete a radical transformation of Playboy Enterprises. The firm was forced to sell its highly profitable British gambling casinos, and also had to drop out of an Atlantic City hotel-casino when New Jersey authorities denied it a gambling license. Moreover, money-losing ventures, including Oui magazine and two resort-hotels, have been sold, and the firm is negotiating the sale of its book operations...