Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vein, we need research on the effects of racism and caste status on learning. The Jensenites can provide this by following Robert Coles and others around in Mississippi and South Carolina to study the parasitic worm and starvation situation among black children. Autopsies of a few who died might yield valuable evidence on the brain damages wrought by malnourishment...
...scene during the last week in Venice. One man did greet his with unfeigned ardor. "Props" man was eager to return with her to his English home. Together, skillfully, painstakingly, they would pull up their floors, demolish the walls and the roof. Every year they made this house yield new halls and secret passageways, new skylights and new rooms. It was the best "set" of all, infinitely plastic to their desires...
...hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times a normal crop. All told, the Israeli government has invested nearly $500,000 in Kallia's uncertain political future...
...would have to make monthly payments of $135; if he signed a similar mortgage now, he would commonly have to pay $144. Last week a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph issued a Triple-A bond with a 7% interest rate, but found few takers even at that rich yield. New York City has chosen to postpone some bond offerings altogether rather than pay so much for money. The nation's banks are expected to increase their loans by only $25 billion this year (to $418 billion), compared with last year's record expansion of $39 billion...
Changing that psychology is Washington's most difficult economic task ahead. Some consumers and businessmen continue to pay sky-high prices for goods in the self-fulfilling expectation that prices are destined to rise higher still. Investors switch their money out of fixed-yield bonds and into stocks, which are a better hedge against inflation partly because buyers think that they are. Inflation has contributed to both the stock market overspeculation and Wall Street's glut of back-office paperwork. * Because of rampant inflation, unions increasingly demand unlimited cost-of-living wage increases instead of limited boosts. Complains...