Word: yielding
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...laid-back Ronnie and his scandals was never very subtle. The shallow Hollywood glitz, which was useful for regaining the White House from Jimmy Carter, would be replaced by solid Republican virtues now that patrician George was in the Oval Office. The simpleminded rhetoric about an evil empire would yield to more refined management of foreign policy under the former director of the CIA. Bush, a diplomat at the U.N. and in China, was not like Reagan, who before he turned 50 had been abroad only once, to make a movie in England...
Richard Nixon made the final decision to yield the presidency, and the inevitability of his departure had been writ large for days. Still, the pain was intense. Not long before Nixon made that final wave from the door of his helicopter, Alexander Haig, then the White House chief of staff, met with a friend in the shadowy Map Room in the basement of the Mansion. "He will be dead within a year," said Haig of Nixon, having witnessed an emotional wound beyond anything Haig the soldier had seen before...
...least two different kinds of efforts to control health care costs are referred to under the heading of "cost containment" in current health care policy. Plans designed to yield better coordination between providers and insurers (see "managed care" below) with resulting efficiencies, and changes which limit the amount or kind of care which a health plan covers can both be called cost containment...
...does learn something from Brent Meuller--that history, because it is a false construct, does not have to be true necessarily. Mulling over documents and picking apart the details of long ago events are fruitless. Historical inquiry will never yield a "correct" version of what happened--because there is no correct version of what happened. It can all be deconstructed down to nothing...
Scott M. Sperling, managing partner of theAeneas Group, the high-risk, high-yield divisionof the Harvard Management Company, told TheCrimson last week that in addition to his $1,400in personal contributions, he donated $5,000 tothe Democratic National Committee...