Word: yield
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...past recruitment weekends are any indication, Rumayor's decision will not be a unique one. Ninety percent of the high school students who attended the event last year, decided to matriculate, a significantly higher yield than from minority admittees overall, said Jennifer Davis Carey '78, admissions and financial aid officer and director of the undergraduate minority recruitment program...
Last year, 60 percent of minority admittees chose to attend Harvard, compared to a 72 percent yield overall, said Carey...
...announce later this year that his tasks as Armed Services Committee chairman prevent relentless campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire, but that he will launch a national candidacy in time for the Southern round of primaries on March 8. This could succeed, Strauss speculates, because the earliest contests might yield a "dog's dinner result" -- a lot of scraps and leftovers -- for the present pack. If so, a Nunn or a Cuomo could defy conventional wisdom by waiting until after that round to leap...
...another obvious class of recruits, take a look at the various vicious species of ants. Careful negotiations with the appropriate power-brokers in royal ant courts will yield HIACAs (Hordes of Insect Anti-Commissary Agents. The little red merchants of spoliation, dropped over Soviet supply depots from tiny drone planes, could chomp their way toward a Warsaw Pact surrender...
...pretty bad scene the whole time. This system seems to yield itself to a lot of worrying," said Undergraduate Council member Jeff A. Cooper '90, who observed the running of the computer program...