Word: yielded
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...years ago brought hope of agricultural self-sufficiency to India and other countries of Asia, has already lost much of its promise. The increase in oil prices has nearly trebled the cost of nitrogen fertilizers and of fuel for irrigation pumps upon which the crops of high-yield rice and wheat rely. Hundreds of thousands of Asia's small farmers who once enthusiastically sowed their fields with the Green Revolution's hybrid strains are now reverting to more traditional methods of cultivation. The harvests are smaller but much less dependent on fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation...
...home gardeners fare economically? Derek Fell, executive director of the National Garden Bureau, estimates that on an investment of $5 in seeds and another $25 in fertilizer, plants and tools, a 15- by 25-foot backyard plot can return a yield of vegetables worth $280 to $300 at present prices. But, he warns, "too many people overspend the first time"; fancy tools and equipment (such as a $200 compost maker) of course reduce the savings. And Fell's calculations do not include whatever value the home gardener might care to put on his or her unpaid labor...
Writers about the Old West are the battery hens of fiction, their relative status usually assessed in terms of yield. Questions of individual flavor, style or craft are usually redundant. Thus Louis L'Amour, who has produced 60 or so novels to date, is a spring chicken compared with Zane Grey, creator of 89 extra-large books (approximately 9 million words) between 1904 and 1939, or Max Brand (Destry Rides Again), who could turn out 14 pages an hour, and managed a total of 25 million words and 13 pen names before his death...
...your original request." He said, "The additional material furnished will permit the committee to complete its inquiry promptly," after this week's congressional Easter recess. He did not say what that "material" would be. Nixon thus was reserving to himself the decision on what he finally would yield. St. Clair also seemed to link any further furnishing of evidence with his request that he be permitted to take part in the committee's impeachment deliberations...
There is no clear indication yet of how damaging the tapes will prove to be for Nixon. Certainly his general reluctance to yield them to investigators has created widespread suspicion that they hurt rather than help his cause. So, too, has the report of a group of technical experts that part of one tape was deliberately erased. That conclusion is expected to be confirmed and strengthened when the panel presents its full scientific analysis, probably this week, to Federal Judge John Sirica in Washington. So far, two other tapes have been declared to be "nonexistent" by the White House. Never...