Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, should the power of Government be used in a large democracy to make citizens consume less energy? President Ford's package of tariffs and taxes is aimed at raising the prices of gasoline, heating oil and other petroleum products in the hope that the market mechanism will yield a reduction in demand. Ford's complex, costly and contentious proposal has not only stirred savage opposition but also raised calls in and out of Congress for a new look at an old alternative: gasoline rationing...
...defense attorney implied that Ward had employed standards of measurement in interpreting figures from the autopsy that would yield a contrived and exaggerated estimate of the age of the fetus...
There was the time Helms and L.B.J. had a shouting match outside the Oval Office. Johnson had made up his mind how a certain situation had come about. Helms told him it was not so. Helms would not yield, and though Johnson walked away from that encounter sore, he developed new respect for Helms...
...failing to warn them or her about Poddar's threat. Alameda County Superior Court found no grounds for the suit, but the state supreme court's new ruling sends the case back to trial. Substance of that ruling: confidentiality between therapist and patient must yield "when a warning is necessary to prevent a violent attack." Moreover, therapists could be liable to civil damages, unless it can be shown that "sound professional judgment" was used...
...that repelled even Nixon's steadiest allies. The House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings showed to a nation skeptical about Congress a group of earnest men and women trying to achieve fairness in a historic and profoundly disagreeable job. At last Nixon was forced to yield up what became known as "the smoking gun"-a previously deleted passage of the transcripts in which the President flatly ordered an FBI-CIA cover-up of Watergate; it contradicted his repeated solemn assurances of his innocence and condemned him to at least a charge of obstruction of justice...