Word: yes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anticipated negative reactions. He said the church sympathizes with the desire of couples to have children and of researchers to extend knowledge. "However, honesty of the aim and goodness of intentions are not sufficient," he insisted. "The no to certain experimentations and to certain reproductive techniques is actually a yes to man, a witness to the dignity and deliverance...
...increasing sense at all three networks that nothing is sacrosanct about the nightly news show. Asked if he would still like to be anchoring the CBS Evening News five years from now, Rather, 55, answers quickly, "If God is good to me and with a little luck, yes." Ten years from now? Hesitation. "Gee, I don't know. It's a young person's game." On the chair next to him in his office is a small needlepoint pillow with the saying ALWAYS IS NOT FOREVER...
...response should have been "Well, yes." At the end of a routine press conference last week, Clements admitted that he and other unnamed S.M.U. governors had actually decided to let payments to some players continue despite the N.C.A.A. punishments. His self-contradictory explanation: "We -- with a capital we -- we made a considered-judgment decision over several months that the commitments had been made and in the interest of the institution, the boys, their families and to comply with the N.C.A.A., that the program would be phased out and that we would comply in a full sense of integrity...
Impossible, you say, to turn Love is a Many Splendored Thing into a crowd-pleasing romance? Mad, you say, to attempt to transform Caligula into a film less mindless than its creators? Bizarre, yes, unheard of, yes! But mad? Well, maybe...
...editor smiled and said, 'Yes.' It was a good weekly arts magazine in that it was a magazine and it was good. The page numbered sixteen, of which there were six added to the Roman numerical standard of ten. There were words on the pages. And still more words. An occasional picture, but mostly words. Except for the ads, of course. Scanning the deserted newspaper office which had no people in it, the editor reflected that these were indeed good words. 'Yes,' a voice somewhere said in a voicelike manner. 'Isn't it pretty to think...