Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 said pesticides only increase grape yield by 7 to 10 percent, adding that "the underlying problem is the pesticide companies. They're the only losers in this [if the grape growers stop using pesticides...
Both men displayed a willingness to yield on demands that once seemed immutable. Cristiani abandoned the government's requirement that the guerrillas lay down their arms as a prerequisite to serious negotiations. While insisting that the rebels must eventually surrender their weapons, he said it was "not necessarily a first step." The President, whose rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) has strong links to El Salvador's armed forces, also offered publicly for the first time to consider a drastic reduction in military manpower. If the talks succeed, he said, "there would be a demobilization of the armed forces...
...latent dread of junk-bond investors is that one really colorful case of corporate distress might set off a selling spree in the volatile market for the high-yield securities. Last week their fears shot to the surface when Canada's Campeau Corp. said it might default on its debt, which is in part composed of junk bonds. That disclosure sparked the market's worst drubbing since the Crash of 1987, as traders rushed to dump their holdings. During the week, junk-bond issues fell in price by $10 to as much as $130 for each $1,000 in face...
...billion junk-bond market has grown explosively since the early 1980s, when Drexel Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken pioneered the use of high- yield bonds as a means to finance hostile takeovers. In the wake of his indictment last March for insider trading and racketeering, Milken has resigned his Drexel post and stayed far removed from the market. But speaking at a Manhattan conference on high-yield debt last week, Milken suggested that it was time to buy, not sell, junk bonds. Said he: "There is tremendous opportunity out there today...
...retailers, Campeau made plans to build dozens of big department stores. While he spun off such acquisitions as Brooks Brothers and Bonwit Teller to pay part of his $11 billion debt, he insisted that his remaining chains could churn out enough cash to make interest payments, finance expansion and yield profits as well. Instead, the cash registers rang slowly as the retailing industry suffered from stagnant consumer spending...