Word: yield
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Even Gore's note-perfect concession speech--brief, unbowed, ruefully funny and unabashedly patriotic--carried a dire subtext. The Vice President quoted Stephen Douglas' concession to Abraham Lincoln after the 1860 election: "Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I'm with you, Mr. President, and God bless you." But when Douglas offered those uplifting words, the nation was weeks away from the Civil...
...every cell in every tissue of the body. This so-called book of life will inevitably reveal secrets of both health and disease, promising new treatments for virtually every malady that afflicts us. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, mental illnesses of all sorts will almost certainly yield to a new generation of genome-based medicines that will make antibiotics and other modern drugs seem prehistoric...
BONDS ARE BOOMING With the market limping badly and the economy stagnating, inflation-indexed Treasury bonds are gaining some momentum. The bonds, first offered last year, are increasing in yield, as expected easing of the Fed's interest rates has bolstered demand in recent weeks. Certainly, inflation is no big deal and no big scare, but it's still there. With these indexed bonds, the Treasury adjusts the principal annually in accordance with annual cost of living increases, so interest payments, like Social Security checks, provide a current-value source of steady income. It's a no-lose deal, which...
...circuit court decision is untenable. The Bush lawyers, on the other hand, insisted that Sauls ruled the only way he could: The Gore team, after all, did not satisfy existing standards for a recount, which require a plaintiff to prove there is "reasonable probability" that a recount will yield a changed election results...
...each of Boston's stations, the PEJ study pinpoints a few specific areas of weakness which can certainly be used as starting points for change. But the most telling of PEJ's criticisms and the one that would yield the best results if acted upon is the one about poor enterprise. Boston's stations devote so much coverage to topics like local crime not only because they think that doing so attracts viewers, but also because they are lazy...