Word: yes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington 81 years ago, it was one of the world's biggest rail terminals but otherwise very much of its time. Before World War I, budgets for civic building were generous, beaux-arts neoclassicism was almost obligatory, and the U.S. had more than 80,000 busy train stations -- yes...
Another example of the law of unintended consequences was that welfare and other poverty programs helped foster a dependency on government. The idea of welfare has always been problematic, for it reflects a conflict between two archetypal American values: generosity and self-reliance. Yes, we must offer the poor a hand. But doesn't such help undermine their ability to help themselves? Conservative scholars like Charles Murray contend that Aid to Families with Dependent Children provided an economic incentive for women to have babies out of wedlock and for men to avoid supporting their children. Murray goes...
...convincing majority of Chileans, voting simply "yes" or "no," rejected a proposal by Pinochet and other military chiefs that he remain in office until...
...returns, also partial, showed 2,771,995 "no" votes for 57.6 percent, and 2,022,031 "yes" votes, or 42.2 percent. It gave no specific count of blank or voided ballots...
With 15,960 of the 22,248 voting tables reporting, the Interior Ministry announced that "no" ballots totaled 2,754,805, or 53.3 percent, while "yes" ballots totaled 2,290,972, or 44.3 percent. There were 121,400 ballots that were blank or voided for being wrongly marked...