Word: yielded
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...America v. Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States. A panel that has been reluctant to break new judicial ground has now been asked to rule on a fundamental question involving the constitutional balance between the judiciary and the presidency. More immediately, the decision could force Nixon to yield evidence that might bolster the Special Prosecutor's conspiracy case against former Nixon aides and influence the eventual outcome of the impeachment process under way in the Congress by providing significant new evidence...
Ostensibly, Nixon's no-win choice in the face of an adverse decision would be to yield the tapes and their damaging contents or defy the Supreme Court. Theoretically, he could also, of course, take the embarrassing step of pleading his Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination...
...noncompliance by Nixon now remains at least a small possibility. St. Clair told reporters after the Supreme Court arguments that he did not know whether the President would yield. It would seem more politically expedient, and more in keeping with previous tactics, for Nixon to cooperate in principle?and then delay actual delivery of the tapes as long as possible. St. Clair seemed to suggest that possibility when he said that it might take two months for the 64 tapes to be submitted for screening by Federal Judge John J. Sirica if Sirica's original order to produce the tapes...
...characteristics of the supermarket business is that it takes far less capital to build a chain of groceries than to start an oil refinery or steel mill, and the stores get much more sales for each dollar invested -so that a paper-thin profit margin on sales can yield a satisfactory return on investment. In any case, supermarket profits have been rising dramatically recently. A. & P. earned $10.3 million in the first quarter of its current fiscal year, almost as much as the $12.2 million it earned in all of fiscal 1973 (when its profits were held down both...
...even as Nixon conferred, they wheeled the big jets into the hangars at Andrews Air Force Base to give them a fresh coat of turtle wax and burnish them for the trip this week to the Soviet Union, which will be bigger, more profound and yield more headlines that the workers in the White House will clip, measure and assay...