Word: yes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashioned is part religious pageant, part sermon, part military panoply and part celebration of the reverberant power of language -- of vows, of curses, of omens. Above all it glories in the eternal reign of the storyteller, whose chronicles outlast the might of the captains and kings and, yes, even gods who figure in his tales. At one point a deity confronts the poet who is purportedly narrating the epic and demands, "Vyasa, which of us has invented the other?" That is art at its most self- aggrandizing. Yet how indeed does man come to comprehend anything beyond his immediate world...
...compared with New Jersey's efforts to give away its garbage. City managers have sent trucks rolling into rural Pennsylvania in search of an appropriate rock formation on which to deposit their load. Pennsylvanians, to their credit, have been pretty adamant about not taking the refuse. A dozen roses, yes, but they refuse to accept 750 tons of Twinkie wrappers and ex-TV dinners...
State politicians are unwilling to raise taxes to fund the incinerators, and environmental groups are blocking any state plans that skimp on pollution control. But even when a satisfactory plan is agreed upon, suburbanites get up in arms and the NIMBY Syndrome strikes. "Incinerators, yes, but Not In My Back Yard...
...knew, didn't you?" Woodward asked, inquiring whether Casey was aware that funds from the sale of arms to Iran were being diverted to the Nicaraguan contras. "His head jerked up hard," Woodward writes. "He stared, and finally nodded yes...
DEPENDING ON the area in which your ad runs--you must know your customers--the text may also read, "I hate The American Way of Life. Long live the Evil Communist Oppressors who have already infiltrated every level of our society. Do you agree? Send nothing if YES, and $50 or more if NO. The Choice is yours...