Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depend on monsters." After reading a book on sunken treasures, Mark becomes obsessed with finding a ship laden with the spoils of Peru that went down en route to the Caribbean in 1820. Years of research, to the exclusion of his schoolwork and to his father's growing annoyance, yield the final fragment of the puzzle. Mark knows he must go to Santa Catalina, a small out island in the Bahamas, where he will surely strike it rich...
...difficulty would necessarily discourage an erratic regime such as Libya's from pouring large amounts into building a small nuclear device. Taylor says that if such a regime could get its hands on enough plutonium, it would require only a few thousand dollars to build a device with a yield of ten kilotons, three kilotons less than that of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, that could fit into a medium-size car. "I'd give them a pretty good chance, say, one in three, of building one that would work the first time," he says...
Winthrap held a 3-1 lead entering the final frame, but Leverett refence to yield. With two down, Clippers knocked a double to send the game into extra innings...
Finally, the educational benefits of technology also remain in dispute. There is still little proof that new devices yield lasting improvements in learning. Many studies purport to find such gains. But most of them can be explained on the grounds that students using computers were temporarily motivated by the sheer novelty of the machines or that more effort and better teaching went into the computerized courses than were devoted to the conventional classes with which they were compared. Thus, the learning improvements that early investigators reported form computer-assisted instruction shrank to nothing when the same teacher taught both...
...customary reward of defeat, if one can survive it, is in the lessons thereby learned, which may yield victory in the next war. But the circumstances of our defeat in Vietnam were sufficiently ambiguous to deny the nation (that) benefit...