Word: yielded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...different payment methods the proposal defines, she said. DHS allows international students to pay by mail or online with a credit card. While Ladd said she does not expect problems with the latter method, paper submissions of the fee will require a money order and time for processing, potentially yield a higher margin of error and ultimately make the process more difficult for students...
...family, tended toward "slight and major derangements." Her father, a hard-drinking depressive, leveraged one real estate deal after another with little money. "His idea of a relaxing way to make a payment was to drive to Nevada and shoot craps all night." The remembered details of family life yield vivid metaphors for her theme, none better than this: in a Sacramento house the Didions moved into in 1951, the gold silk organza curtains on the stairs hadn't been changed since 1907. They "hung almost two stories, billowed iridescent with every breath of air, and, if touched, crumbled...
...Guardian’s literary editor and asked for a job. He got it, but his early assignments were short—five to eight-hundred word reviews. He later became deputy editor of the magazine’s book page, but even that didn’t yield the sort of expansive, in-depth criticism he longed...
...some people were forced to borrow from moneylenders who charged high rates of interest," he says. Recently, Narong borrowed $475 from the Village Fund at a very low rate and used it to hire laborers to help him work his fields. Increased labor led to a greater crop yield, and this year, for the first time in six years, he earned enough to begin paying back his creditors. "I came very close to losing my land," he says. "But now I think I will be free of debt within five years." And Narong is not alone: nationwide, poverty levels have...
...have been pondering these ideas longer than anyone else,” said the 82-year-old Hertzberg. “I yield to no one on this continent or in Israel on the issue of Zionism...