Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going from nowhere to nowhere. Perhaps filming that inner vision is doomed to fail, since once we see the traffice, it's too familiar to be as arid as Didion's prose images. Still, Perry's attempts to imitate her taunt staccato sentences with abrupt cutting and flashes to yield signs (symbols, anyone?) just doesn't catch the throbbing pulse of Maria's driving--her personal substitute for suicide. When the action moves out to Carter's shooting location in the desert. Hell is still other people, but Perry successfully concentrates on them, and not on the plastic city they...
...talks figured to be difficult. Nevertheless, during the long hiatus in the negotiations, some of the issues that Kissinger will raise have somewhat diminished. When he returned to Washington last week after a two-day visit in Saigon, General Haig was able to report that Thieu had begun to yield-though reluctantly-on some of his objections to the nine-point plan...
Varietals are titled after the grape from which they are made. These grapes have a much smaller yield per acre than those used in generics, so varietal wines are usually more expensive: $2.50 to $ 12 a fifth. They are also more complex in taste and aroma than generics. Among the better known...
...Buckley's conservative National Review early published a thorough analysis of McGovern's controversial economic theories, claiming through charts and figures that McGovern's proposed retooling of the federal budget would create an additional deficit of $100 billion a year. For one thing, increased taxation of estates would not yield as much as McGovern estimated, wrote Associate Editor Alan Reynolds! "Surely it is obvious that more donations would be made by people while alive, that there would be more profligate consumption, that people would work less and retire sooner...
Decade of Digging. The William and Mary researchers are convinced that digging will yield still more treasures: the plantation's original cemetery, which perhaps includes headstones for the six settlers killed in a 1622 Indian massacre that nearly ended English colonization in Virginia; the foundations of other plantation buildings and fortifications; perhaps even traces of the old windmill, the first in English America, that stood on a promontory, still known as Windmill Point, overlooking the James River. Indeed, the archaeologists are certain that there is such a bonanza buried under Flowerdew Hundred that it will take at least...