Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concern to some of Washington's Asian allies, who fear that Harriman and Johnson may give away too much too soon. Reflecting that fear, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu declared on the eve of the talks: "The Republic of Viet Nam will not yield even a centimeter of land to the Communists, will not form a coalition government with the N.L.F., and will firmly not acknowledge the N.L.F. as an equal political entity to negotiate with...
...certain to take considerable time, though there are some officials in Washington who are confident that the talks will not turn into another Panmunjom. They argue that Lyndon Johnson would not have proposed the talks, and renounced a second term, until he was fairly certain that they would yield some results. They also maintain that Moscow might well have encouraged that view, and note that Xuan Thuy is well known as a member of Hanoi's pro-Soviet faction. In any case, Harriman emphasized when asked whether the U.S. had put a time limit on the talks: "None whatsoever...
...true. Only 5% of our business results directly from Viet Nam." Says President G. William Miller of Rhode Island-based Textron: "A 20% cut in our defense contracts could easily be made up with only a 10% increase in our civilian sales." One reason is that civilian sales yield higher profit margins...
Kirk also said tonight that he would yield to a request to discuss the Morningside Park gymnasium issue with the mayor. The mayor is said to favor an alternate site for the gym, which was scheduled to be built on a site leased to Columbia in 1961 for only $3000 a year. Construction has already been halted temporarily at the mayor's request...
Alone of the characters in Couples, Piet is married to Iseult-the unreachable Angela, who cannot yield to him though she recognizes him as "the only person who ever tried to batter through to me." Life with Angela thus becomes for Piet an unbearable nostalgia, embodied in her, and his salvation comes down to a matter of attempting to tolerate the intolerable. They are "ordained for divorce," says Updike, and their submission is an acknowledgment of death's approach...