White House officials may be right when they say Yeltsin could win ratification of Start 2 if he fought hard enough.

But White House aides said that, while they considered the provision a victory, it was not strong enough to win ratification.

In turn, this has presented President Clinton with new roadblocks in his efforts to win ratification.

It won ratification by the required three-fourths of the states in 1951.

To win ratification, President Reagan will need to swallow hard and accept this clarification.

He was charged in 1999 with ordering subordinates to alter ballots to win ratification of a five-year contract being negotiated with the city.

But the proposed deal is no more credible than the Administration's ability to win ratification by Congress.

The DaimlerChrysler contract is subject to a vote by workers next week, and is expected to win ratification easily.

But the scheme has never gone into effect because it has failed to win ratification from a sufficient number of countries.

The administration was forced to accept the unilateral exemptions to the inspection system to win ratification, he said.