Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delays caused by the MBTA's reluctance to yield the subway yards and community pressure to keep the museum out of Cambridge because of the possible traffic and pollution problems it would bring held up construction for more than a decade, until...
...that point Grady and the anti-power plant faction may literally strap themselves to the pillars of the vacant homes that remain on the power plant site, creating a highly visual presentation of Harvard bulldozing a community. The outcome may yield some political compromise, but it is more likely that by that time Harvard will have gone too far to be intimidated by bad public relations, on the eve of construction...
...took place around a table made of polished South African stinkwood. Its purpose was to set a time and place for negotiations that would pave the way for black majority rule. It floundered because Smith and most of his 273,000 fellow white Rhodesians do not want to yield power. In a surprise development, South African Prime Minister John Vorster and Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda arrived at the falls-Vorster to put pressure on the whites and Kaunda on the blacks to reach a compromise. Both men were concerned that otherwise a savage civil war would erupt and spill into...
DeMascio argued plausibly that almost any large-scale busing scheme would yield only "negligible desegregation results" in the Motor City. Last year the Supreme Court ruled out "cross-district" busing of students between the city and the mostly white suburbs; thus limited to the city proper, busing could not do much more than merely shuffle students from one predominantly black school to another. The judge thought either plan would entail a massive effort, including the purchase of hundreds of buses, to little real effect. He called for new proposals that would accept any school with a black enrollment of more...
...four years. This year there were two damaging developments. A freakishly warm winter failed to provide the essential protective coat of snow for the winter wheat, hurting the crop. Then, just as the spring plantings of corn and wheat were sprouting, a hot June parched the shoots, stunting the yield...