Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole, revolutionaries don't make revolution in order to give up power after they have seized it. Therefore, in many parts of the world, there is a tendency toward totalitarianism simply because the generation that seized power did not go through all that suffering in order to yield it. Our revolution was very peculiar, [since] it was made by people who knew who they were to begin with, and who thought they were carrying out an existing tradition...
...businessmen and consumers to borrow more money than lenders had available would push interest rates higher. One probable result: a greater flow of money out of savings and loan associations, which supply a huge chunk of the mortgage money for new homes, into Government securities and other investments that yield higher interest rates than the savings banks and S and Ls can legally pay. The nation's mutual savings banks lost an estimated $300 million worth of deposits in September, v. a net gain of $10 million in August...
...life fades. Although Sally Moore insisted that she did not get her idea to ambush Ford from Squeaky Fromme ("Squeaky is insane," Moore scoffed), the faddish emulation of sensational acts can be a real danger. Ford can cut the odds by traveling less frequently. When he does yield to his yearning for a "dialogue with the people," he should do so at less publicly scheduled times. He can more safely mingle with people if they are totally unaware that he might...
...getting some help. Last week twelve big corporations with headquarters or major operations in New York, including Exxon, Union Carbide and IBM, agreed to buy $20 million of bonds to be issued by the Municipal Assistance Corp., a state corporation that is raising money for the city. (Older, higher-yield MAC bonds have been holding steady in price.) The EFCB and city hall are fashioning a new, presumably realistic budget for the present fiscal year, which Beame will announce on Oct. 20. In December, though, the money crunch begins anew: the city will have to come up with more than...
...seems to have prised another kind of physicality out of language--the expressiveness of hands and faces. It may prove to be a revealing type of language for a man who has something to say if, as he suggests, "it is impossible to accept the fact that we would yield our bodies as we do and keep our thoughts hidden...