Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...path of developing and expanding the processes of democratization and glasnost. We are committed to that. We'll be guided on that path by the rule of law. That means there should be one law for everyone; everyone should be equal before the law. Nor should we yield to pressure from those who would like us to tighten the - screws, as they put it. Of course we'll find some screws loose, and they will have to be tightened. But repression, witch-hunts, the search for enemies -- all that is unacceptable. It's not what we want...
...what is left, other than vague notions of peaceableness or stability or well-being. But such imprecision may not be a bad transitional state. After nearly a half-century's concern about national security, a certain etymological inertia may be inevitable. This ingrained way of ordering and worrying may yield not so much to outright retirement as to a kick upstairs -- to a grander role with little real significance...
...groups have beseeched state officials to stop spraying the insecticide Malathion in populated areas. But the bureaucrats at the California department of food and agriculture refused, insisting that the . spraying poses no threat to human beings. Now at last the state's anti-medfly force has been induced to yield a bit -- to avoid possible harm to an endangered species named the Stephens' kangaroo...
...that the committee was formed in 1972 to examine Harvard's holdings in publicly traded stocks, which at the time constituted almost 100 percent of the University's investment strategy. But now, the endowment's money managers have sunk more than $1 billion into the high-risk and high-yield realm of "private placement" investing that includes venture capital and leveraged buyouts. Although profitable, such deals have been recently questioned by Congressional panels and consumer advocates for their ethical and economic implications. But because these deals aren't covered by ACSR, they haven't been questioned at Harvard...
...Aeneas Group--This group of HMC-affiliated companies oversees much of Harvard's "private placement portfolio." It includes the risky, high-yield holdings of real estate, oil and gas, venture capital--in which a private investor provides funds for start-up or rapidly growing firms--and leveraged buy-outs, in which large amounts of capital are used to oust current management and take control of a targeted company...