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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot let recent events distract us from the cause of those brave fighters for freedom around the world," he said. As his audience applauded, Reagan said, "Yes, you did just make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poindexter Is Mum; GOP Assails Regan | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...numeric code," explains Mayaux, as if buying a Burgundy electronically were the most natural thing in the world. "We punch it into the Minitel, and ten days later the wine arrives." The Mayauxs are not alone. Today some 4.5 million French men and women are shopping, banking, reading and, yes, flirting via Minitel, the state-run experiment in computer-to-computer communications that has grown into the world's largest home videotext network. Begun with a flourish in 1981 when the French Postes Telephones Telecommunications seeded a village in Brittany with 1,500 free terminals, the operation today boasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Punching Up Wine and Foie Gras | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Spence: Yes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What If Oswald Had Stood Trial? | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Lastly, when commenting on whether Blacks will be hurt by company withdrawals his answer is "maybe yes." The real answer is definitely yes, and it is already happening. With each withdrawal it is Black, unskilled labor that must be cut to retain profitability, worsening the astronomic 25 percent unemployment rate in a country that has no Social Security or state welfare. Professor Mendelsohn uses as justification the fact that Black organizations are willing to make sacrifices to achieve their goal. While this is true it appears to hold water only in the theoretical statement, as evidenced by the recent strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Response to Mendelsohn | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

...sanctions can be seen in Archbishop Tutu's statement that there is no guarantee that sanctions will work, it is merely the last peaceful option. Is this possibility enough to allow the West to incur further hardship on an already oppressed populace? This must be a personal question. Yes, even in the event that sanctions do work, however unlikely that may be, and when ultimately a Black government does (as it inevitably will) come into power, will the West guarantee to reinvest the money it has withdrawn and restimulate a dying economy? Mark Suzman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Response to Mendelsohn | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

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