The Brownback resolution is the handiwork of the auto dealers' lobbying group - whose acronym, NADA, happens to be Spanish for 'nothing".
Zoé Valdés, a former cultural official, wrote a novel about the period whose title — "La Nada Cotidiana," or "The Everyday Nothingness" — summed up the widespread feeling of despair.
That's how I came to know Khalas and Nada, whose identities have been concealed in order to protect their safety.
For lawmakers, such questions have to be weighed against aggressive lobbying exerted by groups defending their interests, such as the NADA, whose members employ over 1.1 million people selling cars from all major automakers, including General Motors Co, Volkswagen and Toyota.
Dragana and Nada, whose sons Stefan and Mirko also came to the Corner, shared the same view.
But this version, too, was abandoned after one of the alleged victims -- Nada Yassin, a 21-year-old whose rape and mutilation Mr. Omar had described in detail -- showed up in court.
That includes the somewhat tumultuous relationship between Alibaba and Yahoo, whose $1 billion investment in 2005 into the Chinese e-commerce company Nada still considers the most successful investment by a Western company in China.
He features in the video for "Ya nada volverá a ser como antes" by Spanish pop rock group El Canto del Loco, whose singer, Dani Martín, shares a strong friendship with the footballer.
Vincent Vincent Kartheiserr), the disaffected loner whose sexual fantasies about Roseanne provide the movie with its heavy-breathing, in-and-out-of-focus credit sequence, starts out as a high school nihilist, tattooing the words "por nada" on his arm.
