Word: yieldingness
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Yielding to the forces of modernization, the Radcliffe Department of Buildings and Grounds has retired the Radcliffe fire ropes, unique to the college and part of its history for 40 years.
The pick-and-shovel brigades have invaded Gibeon, where once the sun stood still for Joshua; painstakingly they have probed for the ruins of Gordion, capital of Phrygia, where poor King Midas saw his concubines turn to gold at his touch. The city of Ephesus, sacred to the goddess Artemis...
The truce will settle little beyond what sums are involved. Both sides fear that yielding in the first test of Common Market agricultural protectionism would set a pattern for the later and larger decisions about wheat, corn, sorghum and rice. The Europeans stipulated that the panel's fact findings...
Money & Maneuverability. An even greater worry is raising growth capital. Though credit is easier than usual these days, small businessmen have to pay interest rates up to 20% for it, and many are crusty independents who object to yielding some control of their operations to lenders bent on protecting their...
Still, Hiltons are not always appreciated, being regarded not only as hotels but as a cultural transplant from America. The local "atmosphere" sometimes misfires. Spaniards laughed the peasant-garbed waiters at Madrid's Castellana Hilton right back into tie and tails, and Hilton had to change the name of...