Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the Communists are not about to yield their pre-eminent place. The most likely candidate for the post of President is General Wojciech Jaruzelski, First Secretary of the Communist party. Said government negotiator Janusz Reykowski: "Nowhere do elections contest that system. That would threaten the stability of the state...
...everyone shares the boomers' enthusiasm. According to A.N. Norman, assistant bureau commander of the Los Angeles fire department, several city ambulance drivers have been involved in accidents with boom cars that did not yield the right of way. At a relatively puny 120 decibels, emergency sirens fail to cut through...
...western Kansas ranchers claim a certain kinship with those fictional adventurers because they too have been brutalized by the great weathers of the plains. After the record drought of 1988, they are weakened and vulnerable to a huge, leering sky that still will not yield moisture...
...their own. The more notorious the case nowadays, the longer seems the line of authors in and around the courtroom, armed with notebooks and contracts. Last year's "preppie murder" trial of Robert Chambers for strangling Jennifer Levin in New York City's Central Park, for example, will soon yield Wasted, a book by Linda Wolfe (The Professor and the Prostitute). The Tawana Brawley affair has inspired a team of six New York Times reporters and an editor to collaborate on a volume projected for release in late 1989. Politics and sex were the surefire ingredients of the fraud, bribery...
...Bush, cutting capital gains is another miracle-grow elixir for the economy: "This will increase revenue, help savings and create new jobs." In a reprise of the dubious less-is-more assumptions that once undergirded Reaganomics, Darman argues that such a tax reduction would yield $4.8 billion in additional revenue in 1990. The logic: grateful investors would churn their portfolios in a frenzy to take advantage of the more generous tax rate. Although there is no consensus, most respected economic models challenge these assumptions. A study by the Congressional Budget Office, for example, puts the annual loss in the first...