Word: yielding
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Currently the paths in the Commons are shared by both bicyclists and pedestrians. By city law, bicyclists are required to yield to pedestrians and to provide an audible signal and to slow down when approaching them, according to Elizabeth Epstein, director of the city's environmental program...
...only intellectually important, butalso productive...in terms of health and theeconomy...because of what has been discoveredthrough basic research," he said. "There has beena very important social yield; there's a veryimportant intrinsic intellectual yield. It wouldbe a great, great pity if those were damaged...
...bring in $2 million in ticket sales before being offset by $150,000 to $180,000 in expenses. But that is not the bottom line. Because the first $250 of every $1,000 ticket is eligible for federal matching funds after Jan. 1, 1996, the Nashville dinner will eventually yield an additional $500,000. Total take for the evening: more than $2.3 million. Alexander plans to hold 28 such dinners; Gramm has been holding at least one fund-raising event for every day he is on the road...
...They don't know in any detail how it began or how it will end. And, beyond the local cosmic neighborhood, they don't know much about what it looks like. Each of these questions is now under study; each bears directly on the others; and each could yield within the next few years to the intellectual and instrumental firepower now being brought to bear on it. Assuming, that is, that the universe cooperates...
...Throughout his rule, Mobutu has dealt brutally with opponents, civilian and military. His country's mineral wealth and location kept Mobutu valuable to Western interests for years, but when the threat of communist expansion disappeared, his worth diminished. By 1993 his horrific human-rights record and his refusal to yield the throne had led to an economic squeeze of Zaire by three major trading partners--the U.S., France and Belgium. Largesse from lenient banks dried up. Desperately casting a net for new friends, Mobutu found Robertson. Makau Mutua, projects director of the Human Rights Program at the Harvard Law School...