Word: yes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yes, you must wear a tie...just sign here...
...Okeedokee, we have a few vice-presidency positions open. Let's see, still long hours and unbearable pressure...your wife doesn't leave you, but she does have an affair with the president of the company...oh, and your children all despise you for being such a 'yes' man while you work your employees like slaves. Otherwise the job description is pretty similiar...
...weeks, gathering momentum through the autumn. On the day after Black Thursday, President Hoover bestirred himself and declared that the "fundamental business of the country, that is, production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis." Share prices remained stable that Friday and Saturday. (Yes, markets were open on Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, until...
...bipartisan deficit-cutting conference at which, through his top aides, he was "putting everything on the table with the exception of Social Security, with no other preconditions." Including a tax increase? Though he could not quite bring himself to pronounce those words, Reagan clearly indicated that, well, yes, he would at least discuss the subject. Reminded again and again by reporters of his many previous pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he refused to repeat any such pledge; he merely said both spending and taxes should be kept "as low as possible...
...course, all these matters will be settled by the heedless masses of people who rarely look at dictionaries, much less write them; that is the way of linguistic evolution. So is there any point in resisting changes that may be inevitable? Yes, indeed, as the late poet and translator John Ciardi eloquently argued. "Those who care," Ciardi wrote, "have a duty to resist. Changes that occur against such resistance are tested changes. The language is the better for them -- and for the resistance." It is regrettable that RHD-II resists so little. But it is admirable that it erects such...