Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ides of March looms as a crucial time. Pollster Richard Wirthlin and Counsellor Ed Meese have warned the President that just about now President Carter began to yield to outside clamor. He lost his power through retreat and vacillation...
...bolster his position. Economist Milton Friedman came by the White House last week and told the President that interest rates were at an in-between stage. Bankers who were betting on a Reagan retreat, Friedman said, predict the rates will go still higher; those who believe he will not yield expect the rates to come down. Stand firm, the economist declared, and rates will fall. Reagan nearly hugged...
During my visit to Moscow in March, Brezhnev proposed banning underground tests of nuclear weapons above a certain yield (later set at 150 kilotons). This opened up discussions on verification that represented a major advance. If we were to verify that tests were below the threshold, the Soviets would have to reveal their test sites. This-surprisingly-they agreed to do. The question of "peaceful nuclear explosions" then arose. We asked for on-site inspection, and after prolonged wrangling the Soviets agreed. Never before had they done so. But by then detente had been engulfed in controversy in America...
...view is both privileged and painful: "I accept my function as a colonial upstart at the end of an empire, a single, circling, homeless satellite." The upstart has not lacked for recognition; last year Walcott received an award from the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation that will yield him $48,000 annually for five years. Yet estrangement is not a matter of finances: "I am thinking of an exile farther than any country...
There seems no reason why the Corporation should delay acting to improve its diversity and accountability, and with them, its sensitivity and sensibility. Of course, it would have to yield its status as the oldest self-perpetuating body in this hemisphere--but that seems a small price to pay to bring Harvard's most exclusive finals club in step with the times...