Word: yield
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Greater concern for teaching will yield considerable side benefits as well. If the classroom and not just the lecture hall becomes a locus of learning, papers and class participation could determine a more substantial portion of the student's final grade. The whims of anonymous final exam-graders and the vicissitudes of test-taking would have less sway over the undergraduate; grades as a whole would better indicate his performance in the course. Because more students take make-up exams in courses where the final weighs heavily in the semester grade, as reported to the Faculty 18 months...
...waves of change we must be able to identify clearly the parallel structures of all industrial nations," Toffler fills the first 140 pages of his book with an explanation of the Second Wave, born of the Industrial Revolution. The subtitles that break up the copy every page or so yield the basic scheme, not to mention mentality, of Toffler's discussion. "The Technicians of Power." "Mechano-Mania." "The Streamlined Family." "The Paper Blizzard." "The Progress Principle." Under industrialism, he argues, life is as nasty, brutish and short as it ever...
...than $1 trillion. Yet even credit crunches create opportunities, and some canny consumers have found profits in the vortex of soaring interest rates. A Detroit magazine editor, for example, now sends his savings across the border to invest in the Canadian Bank of Nova Scotia, where six-month certificates yield 17.5% and up, or 2% more than is available Stateside. Two daughters of an affluent Birmingham, Mich., physician used $14,000 in low-interest Government student loans (see box) to invest in real estate and bank certificates. One of the most popular gambits in the new scramble for cheap loans...
...close. Viewers saw Count Basie's legendary reserve during an appearance on 60 Minutes last year. His laconic performance--"Drugs? You can't use drugs and play jazz. Maybe rock musicians can, but jazz musicians, never"--was a model of Spartan deportment. Ricker quickly learned that direct questions would yield direct answers--"yes," "no," or on occasion a poetic "uh-huh"? so the director applied a fail-safe formula of good friends, familiar surroundings, and free-flowing booze to create a relaxed, open, and totally upbeat encounter with these musicians...
...declines 1%; until the 1970s stagflation, the rule worked perfectly. Okun also invented the "discomfort index," the sum of the rates of unemployment and inflation. Okun's abiding concern was to control inflation without triggering recession and its grim results for the poor. Economic efficiency, he believed, must yield somewhat to social equality, or as he put it: "Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket...