Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collected $3.3 million, much of it comes from direct- mail solicitation, a high-cost technique that helps explain why he had a mere $150,000 balance after allowing for pending bills at the beginning of this month. His campaign is now emphasizing fund-raising methods providing a higher yield...
...struggle. Their questions about presidential actions, particularly in intelligence areas, frequently trigger a constitutional debate about power. No matter what the truth of the accusations, the man in the Oval Office must always take time out to answer them. The imperatives of media politics have required Chief Executives to yield more ground than they considered wise or necessary...
...victory would constitute a defeat. One crew member tells the captain, "Whatever you do -- if you do not retreat -- will result in a fiasco." ( The captain has grown increasingly pessimistic: "Any detailed study of an alien technology was futile. Its fragments, like pieces of a broken mirror, would not yield a coherent picture; they were the indistinct result, only, of the thing that had shattered...
...measures. Equal to about 40 tons of TNT, a mere .2% as strong as the Hiroshima blast, it would be feeble in a missile warhead. But in space, packed into the closed end of a stubby barrel and tamped down with hundreds of thousands of metal pellets, the low-yield weapon could wreak havoc. Unlike a standard nuclear explosion, which would vaporize the pellets and barrel, this one would spray the pellets through space at speeds up to 100 times that of a high-velocity rifle bullet. These pellets could not only burst the decoy balloons that would accompany...
...reports yield some clues. Anthony Pinching and colleagues at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London found evidence of a genetic factor in AIDS vulnerability. They examined blood samples from more than 200 individuals for a protein called group-specific component, which has three genetically determined variants. People with one Gc type seemed to be protected against AIDS infection; those with another type had a high incidence of AIDS...