Word: yield
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Harvard has operated the farms, an old part of the estate, since Berenson left I Tatti to the University in 1950. The crop yield raises a small profit for the villa, helping subsidize the salaries of several office workers there...
...calculus is a head-snapper. For example, the SWS's assigned to a bomber would be its total takeoff weight divided by a "K" factor. The K factor for a plane carrying cruise missiles would yield a greater SWS total than the K factor for an identical plane carrying bombs, which are viewed as less lethal. The K factor for land-based missiles takes into account the size and number of warheads. Thus the MX missile, with ten warheads, could count as ten SWS's-but the Soviet SS-18, which also has ten warheads, would equal...
...provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting [racial discrimination in public education] must yield" to the principle that discrimination is unconstitutional...
...York City newspapers by Citibank last week, is among a growing number of signs that the battle for consumers' savings is heating up again. Starting in October, federal regulators will let U.S. banks and savings and loans pay whatever interest they want on certificates of deposit. The yield on most CDs is now tied to U.S. Treasury bill rates; a six-month certificate, for example, currently pays about...
...interest-rate ceiling on CDs represents one of the last major steps in the deregulation of consumers savings deposits. Previous moves have led to innovations like the popular bank and S and L money-market accounts, which pay attractive rates that typically rise or fall weekly. The average yield on such accounts was about 9% last week. The so-called SuperNow accounts, introduced last January, currently pay about 7%, but savers can write an unlimited number of checks against their deposits...