Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military-spending requests sharply before presenting them to Congress. Consequently, the man once known as Cap the Knife (when he was President Nixon's Budget Director) has become the target of congressional budget cutters. After a meeting last week at which Republican Senators could not get the Secretary to yield a dollar, Mark Hatfield of Oregon termed Weinberger "a draft dodger" in the war against deficits...
...they're making a buck off their past. And it's not a bad past. True, the very best moments of American dance are already in That's Entertainment, but the films between 1935 and 1955 are an almost endless gold mine; That's Dancing is still a rich yield...
...Angeles Clinical Psychologist Rex Beaber offered a psychological- political analysis: The primitive unconscious of man is inherently vengeful, and civilization dawns when citizens, by social contract, yield the administering of vengeance and justice to the state. That contract has broken down in America, he believes. "People are saying, 'As an individual citizen, I wish to revoke my contract because you didn't do what I expected...
...sometimes the riled imagination can yield convincing ghosts. Says Marguerite Young, poet and author of the dreamlike novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling: "I see Emily Dickinson quite often, Virginia Woolf, and Dickens. Poe ... oh, all the time, I see him on misty nights at Sheridan Square when the raindrops are falling." Young admits her visions are irrational, yet they are real and useful to her. Even as balanced a writer as Susan Sontag summons up persuasive phantoms, those subtle abstractions that take shape in her essays but scarcely survive outside their contexts...
...macabre scene at the top of the landing ramp. Gunmen wearing hoods pushed two hostages out through the door and handed a bullhorn to one of them. The man, who was wearing a white shirt, nervously introduced himself as the U.S. consul in Karachi and pleaded with negotiators to yield to the hijackers' demands. He said that they had begun a "countdown," and warned that "they are serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared atop the ramp. He could be heard screaming...