TASK DEFINITION: You will be given a context and a verb separated with a newline character, and you have to answer if the given verb can be anchored in time or not. We say a verb can be anchored in the real timeline if and only if a verb happened in the past, is happening now, or is guaranteed to happen in the future. The output should be "Yes" if the verb can be anchored in time and "No" otherwise.
PROBLEM: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic can now participate in NATO strategy planning, because all NATO member states have approved their joining the alliance, German defense minister Rudolf Scharping said Saturday. The Netherlands early this week became the last country to (ratify) NATO expansion to include the three former Warsaw Pact nations.
Verb: ratify

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: In rapid-fire Spanish, so fast that even people who learned the language in other Hispanic cultures can have trouble keeping up, they villify Attorney General Janet Reno, President Clinton and others who want to send the child back to his father in Cuba. And they question _ or ridicule _ news that the boy's father is (planning) to come here to retrieve his son.
Verb: planning

SOLUTION: No

PROBLEM: He persevered through courage and a belief in the right of his patients to choose whether to bear a child. But a principled commitment to provide a constitutionally protected service could not (stop) the assassin's bullet that tore through his kitchen window and into his back Friday night.
Verb: stop

SOLUTION:
No