Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your viewing comprehension, Komachi is a 99-year-old hag who, as a heartless beauty some 80 years before, had refused to yield to a suitor unless he paid her a visit every night for 100 nights; on the 100th night, he died from frustration and expectation...
...umbrella group of moderate parties: "We believe that acts of this kind neither contribute to pacifying the country nor help achieve democracy." Since 1983, when Pinochet loosened some of the restrictions on political activity, the moderates have been struggling to find a way of persuading the dictator to yield to a civilian electoral process. The latest plan was offered in August 1985 by an impressive coalition of eleven centrist and rightist parties called the National Accord, which was put together by Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno. But Pinochet rejected out of hand the Accord's request for elections, the return...
...urinalysis is an unwarranted invasion of the privacy of people who have done nothing wrong. To prevent switching or doctoring of urine samples, a supervisor must watch closely while the specimen is being passed. Even worse, it is widely estimated that some of the cheap tests now in use yield up to 20% "false positives," raising the threat that many people who do not use drugs will nonetheless be denied employment -- while drug users who manage to stay clean for a few days before a test beat the system. Advocates of testing counter that false positives can be diminished...
...provides no subsidy for grocers and drygoods merchants. Publisher Alan Smith, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, (pop. 1,900) used to run two-thirds of a page of delinquent taxes in his Record-News every year. Now he runs six or eight pages. How long before his Ringgold County must yield on the quality of its schools and public services? Not yet, he insists. Adversity brought determination, and Mount Ayr shows a better spirit now than a year ago. Yet half of the county's people could now be below the Government's poverty line. "We can't continue to produce...
...caliber of students it attracts -- Harvard remains in front. Typical freshmen this fall ranked in the top 3% of their high school classes. Even more impressive to admissions officers, 73% of the 2,184 accepted by Harvard (from 13,500 applicants) agreed to attend. This percentage, called the yield ratio, is the surest barometer of where the best students want to go. "We're disappointed, selfishly, because those students aren't enrolling here," says Jean Fetter, dean of undergraduate admissions at Stanford, whose yield of 60% is second to Harvard's. A Harvard admission can be regarded as such...