Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appetite for science fiction. Svetlana Baitova, 16, totes Jack, a stuffed puppy, wherever she goes. When it comes to talk of Seoul, all playfulness falls away. For these girls it will be a grudge match against the Rumanians. "We won't give anything away," Boginskaya vows. "We won't yield, not in difficulty or in any other aspect...
...part, those efforts have been rewarded--37 Black and Hispanic students will register today as first-year students at GSAS. And the numbers are the best yield of minority students at GSAS in the 15 years it has been keeping records about the recruitment and admission of minorities, says Blackman...
Last year, there were 238 minority applicants (excluding Asians) and of that group 48 students, or 21 percent, were admitted. Today, 37 of the 48 admitted will register, thus making the minority yield of 77 percent far higher than the 56 percent acceptance rate among the total applicant pool...
...rootlets of saplings and help the trees absorb water and nutrients. There may be enough spores of fungi in the soil after a clear-cut to start a second-growth forest, but a third crop is less likely to be successful, and it now seems possible that sustained-yield forests based on clear-cutting simply may not work...
This seemingly implacable trend forced Democrats into small-bore strategies as they sought to concentrate on the minimum of states necessary to yield 270. But this year promises to be different. After Labor Day, Dukakis and Bush should be about evenly matched in electoral votes they can probably count on. A careful look at the map shows Bush and Dukakis each starting with relatively reliable bases almost identical in size -- 115 electoral votes for Bush, 112 for Dukakis...