Word: yieldingness
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The problems, however, go much deeper than that. The deregulation of the financial markets has helped produce a stunning amount of corporate and personal debt. In particular, almost $200 billion worth of high-yielding junk bonds has been issued over the past few years, a substantial part of which was...
Dukakis and his staff nonetheless tend to see themselves in overly high- minded terms, as the innocent victims of sound-bite sabotage. Campaign chairman Brountas pointedly walked to the back of the Dukakis plane last week to give ABC newsman Sam Donaldson a copy of a Doonesbury cartoon that lampooned...
Two months later Gorbachev came to power. The most significant act of his tenure has been his decision to pull the Soviet army out of Afghanistan. To hear some enthusiasts for the Reagan Doctrine tell it, Gorbachev was merely yielding to vigorous and effective containment: the U.S. gave Stinger missiles...
The satellite data, published in a scientific journal earlier this year, are only the latest evidence of how remote sensing -- the examination of distant or concealed objects by sound waves, electronic signals or other means -- has dramatically changed the study of the oceans. Scientists are now able to see things...
Andover stood grimly in loco parentis during Bush's time there. In fact, it was even less yielding than his parents in insistence upon duty. Founded on Andover Hill during the American Revolution, the Phillips Academy had its seal designed by Paul Revere. Its self-importance comes across nicely in...