Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adopted. His conclusions are always responsible, often noble, and occasionally naive. For instance, he ascribes our failure to develop safe nuclear reactors to contemporary scientists' inability to have fun inventing them. And as a solution to the energy crisis, he proposes that we somehow clone trees to yield gasoline...
...released from the shale settles to the bottom of the chamber and is piped out. Occidental engineers have already "fired" six giant chambers at an experimental facility at Logan's Wash-with mixed results. In an experiment last July, the roof of the chamber collapsed. In others, the yield of shale oil was not as high as expected...
...atmosphere over the remote southern seas off South Africa on Sept. 22, a U.S. Vela reconnaissance satellite registered the intensity and transmitted the data back to earth. After a month of scrutiny, the U.S. Government surmised that the light may have been caused by a relatively low-yield nuclear explosion. Suspicion fell on South Africa, whose haughty denials did little to quell international fears that the Pretoria government had succeeded in developing a nuclear weapon...
...case, the money fund yield is not so large as it seems. The interest paid by most funds is subject to federal, state and local income taxes, just as are savings...
Those levies pull the yield down well below the inflation rate. Sums up Donoghue...