Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor and machine allies can steer voters to the "right" choices. (Of Pennsylvania's 178 delegates, 134 will be elected next Tuesday and the balance appointed later.) Thus the primary that had been billed as a dramatic Armageddon was becoming more of a diffuse guerrilla war that could yield split results...
...Reagan cited testimony given by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who is negotiating the new treaty, before a congressional subcommittee on April 8. Bunker conceded that he was under written directives from Ford that the U.S. will agree to "give up" the canal zone "after a period of time" and to yield the canal itself "over a longer period of time...
Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, said yesterday Radcliffe's yield was "unbelievably high" for a long time, with about 90 per cent of those admitted choosing Radcliffe...
...That yield has dropped considerably, falling below Harvard's yield at one time, and is only now beginning to creep back...
Harvard's yield percentage now hovers in the high 70s, while Radcliffe's is presently around 75 per cent...