Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States demands onsite investigations of all chemical and biological weapons sites," said the U.S. delegate. "I now yield the floor to questions...
Since plowing through lists of strange names can be dull business, the only people likely to read the acknowledgments in most books are either insomniacs or the ones who are mentioned and thanked by the author for their help. Occasionally, though, these dutiful expressions of gratitude can yield useful information about the works they precede. This first full-length biography of T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) is a case in point. After acknowledging away for nearly two pages, Peter Ackroyd, an English critic and poet, concludes with a terse paragraph: "I am forbidden by the Eliot estate to quote from Eliot...
...famine yet, 300,000 people have already starved to death in Ethiopia and an additional 1 million may perish before the storm begins to abate. Up to seven million currently risk starvation while still others will suffer from prolonged malnutrition. Domestic harvests scheduled to commence next month probably will yield only two thirds of the usual total and the next major harvest is not expected for another year. There's no guarantee that those harvests won't fail; specialists have estimated that a minimum of 600,000 metric tons of grain will be needed in Ethiopia for the next year...
Would 3M's experiments help improve some of its products? Could future space research yield a thinner, tougher Scotch tape? Perhaps. The only thing that 3M knows for certain is that the promise of manufacturing in space is enormous. So great is it, says Christopher Podsiadly, director of 3M's science research lab, that "we have to keep changing our expectations...
...paucity of minority and women professors on campus-approximately two dozen out of 350 tenured faculty-as well as the Isaaes lawsuit and Harvard's continued low yield of minority student admissions sparked the student interest in affirmative action this year, Wilkins said...