Word: yieldingness
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Contrary to conventional school-bashing, there's evidence that better educated parents, smaller families and upgraded programs for poor and immigrant children are yielding significant improvement in test scores, according to a study released today by the prestigious, California-based Rand Institute. "If you listen to the national debate, you...
The ultimate irony of this great harvest drama lies beyond the shores of the U.S. Lester Brown, head of the Worldwatch Institute, suggested earlier this year that unless there were dramatic changes in population growth and food supply, the world soon would not be able to feed itself. "Food security...
The game wasn't over yet, of course, and Harvard added two more touchdowns before yielding a meaningless last-minute touchdown to Dartmouth, but the result seemed effectively decided by the momentum shift of Golla's score.
Before the Kenny G's of the world hijacked jazz-pop fusion and turned it into something best suited to elevators, guitarist Walter Becker and keyboardist Donald Fagen used the genre to create sharp, ravishing songs that were as invigorating as Kenny's are insipid. As Steely Dan, the pair...
In yielding to pacifism, Rabin and Peres went so far as to give weapons to the Palestinians, some of whom openly declared that they will use them against Israel. Again, what they and the Nobel Committee ignore is the full meaning of the word "peace".