Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the Hebron agreement was finally signed after four months of excruciating bargaining, the Israeli Prime Minister was still not a winner. Palestinians came away convinced that Netanyahu would never yield anything to them except under extreme duress. Many Israelis wondered what real security advantage all the tension and ill will had gained them. What the rest of the world regarded as a significant breakthrough for peace ranked as total betrayal to Jewish settlers and hard-line nationalists. At bottom, both his Palestinian foes and his right-wing faithful suspected the Prime Minister of terminal insincerity...
...months that a rise might be coming, Wall Street's reaction to the news was mild. Wondering whether the Fed would raise rates again at its May meeting, investors reversed a 47-point gain and sent prices back down for a 29 point dip by day's end. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond, used in determining consumer and business lending rates, increased only slightly, rising to 6.95 percent from Monday's 6.92 percent. For a tricky balancing act, it was a solid first day. If the Fed succeeds in creating a "soft landing," it will be only...
...rage in the United States, in Europe they are used mostly for satirical purposes. Only in England does the serious superhero thrive, in incarnations like "Judge Dredd," found in the pages of adult comic weeklies like 2000 A.D. or Warriors. French and Belgian takes on the superhero yield either goofy results, like "Superdupont" by Gotlib and Jacques Lob, or satiric ones, as in the Italian "Ranxerox," a buffed-up, tank-top wearing, green-lipsticked, utterly psychotic superhero who bounces around on all fours with wires trailing out of his head...
...Penn, if it increased its spending just 2 percentage points, could generate an extra $40 million, enough to reduce the tuition of each undergraduate by $4,000. Harvard, with its $9 billion endowment, is in an even more advantageous position. A 1-percentage-point increase in endowment spending would yield an extra $90 million, enough to cut its base undergraduate tuition nearly in half...
...hard choice made easier. One of the largest studies yet on treating CLOGGED ARTERIES shows that both balloon angioplasty and more invasive coronary-bypass surgery yield the same quality of life and relief of symptoms for at least five years. One caveat: angioplasty patients may need the procedure repeated...