Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope that when Congress reconvenes after the election, our crippled President will continue to yield the power of his Presidency, ensuring that the compromise on which moderate government depends will be preserved in this time of crisis...
Despite what you are hearing from the puerile American media, substantive developments with serious repercussions are occurring in the world around us. Look past zippergate, Henry Hyde, and the daily spin-cycle that produces our national headlines to the real news--in the international section. A cursory glance will yield an exciting array of stories: the beginnings of a fundamentalist revolution in an Islamic nuclear power, a hot war between Iran and Afghanistan and tales of a genocide in the Western world...
...fairly traditional hedge-fund manager, I use leverage sparingly and don't buy any instrument whose price can't be found in the Wall Street Journal. I bet on stocks that my research shows to be under- or overvalued, not on the direction of the French yield curve or the Thai baht. I play defense by betting against stocks that are too expensive, usually by buying put options--in essence, borrowing shares that I can repay at a profit after the price declines...
...first production of the play there since '56--and the first dramatic production in that space in a decade. Hamlet was the strongly-crafted realization of what was from the start an astonishingly ambitious goal: to present Hamlet straight and to do it well. If the show didn't yield any brilliant new insights into the classic text, it did pull off the laudable achievement of throwing considerable effort, thought and time into making the play accessible and entertaining to its modern audience...
Harvard sought to cap this foundation withstrong and sustained sorties in overtime, but Yaledid not yield. Harvard received more corners thanan icosahedron, but could not shape them intovictory...