Instructions: You will be given a context and a verb separated with a newline character, and you have to answer if the given verb is static or not. We say a verb is static if it is about an event that doesn't change or it happens regularly. The output should be "Yes" if the verb is static and "No" otherwise.
Input: The issue is expected to dominate a NATO summit set for Washington in April. NATO's mission has changed dramatically since its founding in 1949, a time when the West (was) intent on halting the westward spread of Soviet-led communism -- a threat Winston Churchill warned about in his famous  Iron Curtain  speech delivered on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., 130 miles east of here.  
 Verb: was
Output:
Yes