Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Better Chance. For all its promise, new technology will yield no miracles. Some experts calculate that even a 50% cut in construction costs would save consumers only about 15% in rents because of high operating costs, spiraling land prices, local realty taxes and interest charges. Still, that is a goal worth reaching. The biggest problem is getting well-known new methods used. Despite their cooperative attitude in Chicago, labor unions are widely expected to balk when today's modular programs grow larger. And some black militants already complain that instant houses are mere "crackerboxes...
...Volpe in gratitude, an undercurrent of cynicism about the study never left the City. The state Department of Public Works, which had firmly supported Brookline-Elm, was controlling the study. And Volpe himself, a longtime Belt-booster, had little interest in a new study beyond the votes it would yield...
...darlings of the American Stock Exchange, rising from a low of $10.75 in 1964 to a peak of $120 a share in 1966. Now it is down to about $13. After reeling off a series of sad statistics to his stockholders, Cole announced that he would yield his presidency to a younger executive, move into the chairmanship-and give up his yearly salary "as a gesture and an attempt to do everything within my power to turn this company around...
...powerful labor unions to hold the wage line. In the months between the June war and the end of 1967, worldwide sales of Israel bonds and United Jewish Appeal contributions pumped some $550 million into the economy. Though those sources are thinning out-they are expected to yield only $230 million for all of 1968-such overseas friends as the Rothschilds and Sir Isaac Wolfson, the British retailing magnate, are currently spurring a drive for new investment capital...
...that Peru accounts for less than 1% of its total crude-oil production. The company also figures that Peru, which has to import oil to meet its needs, can ill afford to tamper with domestic oil sources. For the moment, Peru's militarists were in no mood to yield. But there is at least a chance that the junta, having scored a few political points, may eventually offer IPC a contract to run the oilfields, much as it has been doing for 44 years...