Word: relented
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...beginning to have an impact in the G.O.P. While Republican leaders in the House have so far blocked efforts to get a vote on the issue this year, some vulnerable, moderate G.O.P. members of Congress are speaking out for a higher minimum wage--and pushing their leadership to relent. Christopher Shays, a nine-term Connecticut Republican embroiled in a tight fight for re-election, says he backs the Dems' push. "I just think it's an embarrassment," he says of his party's stance on the issue...
...several meetings and conference calls with his senior staff, informal advisers, and members of the Harvard Corporation that Tuesday night, Summers said he would not relent to the Faculty’s calls for the transcript, according to two people who were briefed on the conversations...
...they like. When more cash comes in, they add more managers. In theory, the pot never gets too big. Yet this approach has limitations. By design, the fund cannot own more than 10% of any one company. If every manager likes the same stock, one or more must relent--or all get less than they want, which undermines the idea that many stars will outperform one. "We're not having trouble managing the money," says Taylor. But when that day comes, the firm may have to choose a star...
...even for Bryant, arguably the team’s most talented defensive lineman heading into the off-season. It was a classic dose of tough love, and one that figured to hurt Murphy and the 100 other guys on the roster, too. But Murphy didn’t relent. Going back on his word would have done more damage to his tough-guy image than handing down a weaker sentence and seeing it through.“Sometimes they think I’m stubborn,” Murphy said. “But I tell them one man?...
Instead he questions his young captives continuously until they relent from giving cloying denials and spouting naïvely righteous ideals (Sophie asks acerbically at one point, “White rose? Shouldn’t it be a red rose, if they’re leftists?”). Mohr’s prisoners soon begin to outrightly defy his authority, deliberately provoking intense reactions and ultimately pushing him into a full “reality check...