Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped his survival chances and that he must surrender all "relevant" evidence to the Rodino committee. One of Nixon's most vocal supporters, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, has also privately warned Nixon through the President's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, that the President must yield all relevant evidence...
...government. Police, firemen, sanitation workers and other public service employees, battered by inflation, strike for higher wages and benefits. Services to the general public grow worse, and the infection spreads. The ideal of public service erodes?children watch their teachers walk picket lines. The government becomes an adversary. To yield to labor demands heats up the inflation further; to resist spreads further chaos. With paychecks squeezed on one side by inflation and on the other by rising government expenses, a taxpayers' revolt of one kind or another grows likely. Observes Northwestern University Historian Robert Wiebe: "Twentieth century American society...
Such findings are the yield of six months of hard digging by three Star reporters: Bill Anderson, 48, Harley Bierce, 32, Dick Cady, 33, assisted by Photographer Jerry Clark, 34. The quartet depended heavily on clandestine meetings with over 400 informants, nearly 60 of them policemen. They tape-recorded every scrap of information. The work had its hazards: the reporters were often trailed by the police, and telephoned threats became common...
...Rodino committee staff are those of conversations between Nixon and his top aides from about ten days before to ten days after this March 21 conversation. The investigators wonder whether there was any more talk of the illegal hush payments in this period. Nixon has refused to yield any of these tapes to either of the investigating bodies...
...funds take initial investments of $5,000, $10,000 or even less, pool them and invest them in "short-term money market instruments"-large-denomination C.D.s, U.S. Treasury bills (which yield 7.6% but usually are available only in blocks of $10,000) and other high-yielding paper. Typically, they prefer maturities on these instruments of less than 45 days. The funds generally charge a fee of .75% to 1% of the investment, but no other commission or sales charge; interest earned is calculated daily and credited to each investor's individual account. An investor can cash in some...