Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-income housing-and discovered that it would have to pay 8% or more to sell them. That is all the more astounding considering that interest on these loans is exempt from federal income taxes. For a lender who is in the 50% income-tax bracket, an 8% yield on a tax-exempt note is equal to a 16% rate on a taxable loan. Outraged, the state agency withdrew the notes from the market...
...design temporarily shelves plans to develop nearly four acres of the site into related commercial facilities that were expected to yield $750,000 in annual tax revenue for Cambridge. In its place, Pei has designed a 435-car tree-lined "parking park...
...yield more tapes, Nixon also argued, would merely "prolong the impeachment inquiry without yielding significant additional evidence." Therefore, he concluded, he would decline to produce tapes and presidential diaries already subpoenaed and would similarly refuse to obey all subpoenas "allegedly dealing with Watergate" that "may hereafter be issued...
...House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America." Given the reaction to the President's transcripts, the committee's hearings on the evidence against Nixon may well be outrun by events. But if Nixon refuses to yield to the rising clamor for his resignation, the months-long constitutional process seemed more likely than ever before to lead to his removal. Even staunch Nixon supporters found it hard to name 34 U.S. Senators who would surely acquit him of impeachment charges and thus keep him in office...
...only hope, the grubbiest fraction. The transcripts might not necessarily be representative of the way he always conducts business; the language and tone may be loftier and more dignified when he confers with, say, Henry Kissinger or other officials. Despite the indecipherable passages and inelegant language, however, the transcripts yield an absorbing insight into the inner workings of Nixon's White House and of the President's mind. Some noteworthy examples follow...