Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program's aims but transfers administrative responsibility from Washington to state and local agencies. This was the Republican approach to the larger $3.4 billion elementary-and secondary-school bill, a proposal that the Democrats had defeated in a spirited dispute. This time, however, the Democrats were willing to yield federal power because the alternative was no bill at all. In money terms, the compromise freed $3,800,000 for the corps's immediate needs and provided a three-year authorization of $135 million that provides for annual expansion of the program through fiscal...
Abruptly, Ky decided to yield. If Thieu put him on the ticket, he said, he would bow out of the presidential race. That left Thieu and Ky overwhelming favorites to defeat the other 17 slates now in the running. "Big Minh" may poll a sizable number of votes in absentia, and Huong is expected to do well-but not nearly well enough. Thieu, in fact, may offer to appoint Huong Premier as another step toward unity and conciliation. As for Ky, whose withdrawal won wide praise as an act of genuine patriotism, he is expected to be given far more...
...could not reflect national aspiration; this was a flat contradiction in terms. Communist power might seek to exploit social grievance. But this, it was assumed, would only be a tactic designed to win subservience to the ultimate imperial and conspiratorial purpose. And this being so, no nation should yield to such tactics even when the grievance--as might often happen--was real...
...Harvard refused to yield to the pressure brought by the strike and insisted on a state-run election. Finally, in mid-June, the striking workers agreed to return to work if Harvard would attend the Concilation and Arbitration Board meeting. Harvard agreed to the meeting, and the striking workers went back to their Jobs...
...stop only a fraction of incoming warheads-no defense of any kind in any war has ever been 100% effective. The idea is to sow enough doubt, uncertainty and expense into the plans of the enemy to deter him from striking. The daring technical innovations of high X-ray yield and terminal interception pioneered by the Soviets point the way to a viable ABM defense. Let's build one. NORMAN G. LOOPER Lieutenant, U.S.N. St. Paul...