Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sandwich nor a lampshade, but rather Harvard's literary eating society." After the dinner Douglas and Rathborne elope to help a lonely Alaskan mountain defend its freedom of speech, Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennett Jr. urges the University to divest itself of its state and municipal bonds. "These bonds yield 4 1/2 per cent and 5 per cent respectively," Bennett explains. "That's an obvious conflict of interests." President Nixon announces that he is giving up the Paris Peace Talks for Lent...
...troubles added a new dimension to a growing conflict over the rights of newsmen to keep secrets. The Times's source-former FBI Agent Alfred Baldwin III-was clearly identified in the story. Defense lawyers wanted the tapes of his interview on the chance that unused portions would yield information that might discredit Baldwin as a witness...
...changed his evaluation considerably. "Peace can be near," he said, but-and this "but" loomed frighteningly large-North Viet Nam would have to decide to resume bargaining "in good faith," as defined by the U.S. Yet Kissinger revealed that his latest round of talks in Paris had failed to yield an agreement satisfactory to Richard Nixon...
...slopes of that mountain billions of years ago. Scientists hope that the rocks consist largely of highland material far older than the relatively young rock of the valley floor. En route back to the LM, the astronauts will stop at a 300-ft.-wide crater called Shorty, which may yield entirely different material: deep-lying rock that was either ejected by a meteor impact or a volcanic eruption that occurred after the landslide covered the area...
Died. Nathan Ohrbach, 87, founder of the retail clothing chain that made low prices yield high profits; in Manhattan. Ohrbach grew up in Brooklyn, and began selling women's coats from rented space in a friend's hat shop. He opened his first large store in 1923 on the sound principle that women love bargains. Anticipating the methods that later created a discount merchandising boom, Ohrbach stocked items that would move fast and attract crowds. He also sold low-priced copies of Paris originals, but provided a personal touch by greeting shoppers at the door...