Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recovery. A burst of new construction-gleaming office towers, bank headquarters and a handsome civic center for the arts-has rejuvenated much of the area. Over the past eight years, the city's businessmen have committed $800 million for downtown building and remodeling. By 1970, that investment will yield 9,000,000 sq. ft. of new office space, almost twice as much as was built downtown in the first 60 years of the century. In the process of rejuvenation, the old heart of Los Angeles is sprouting a skyline to match its aspirations as a commercial and cultural center...
...dopamine cannot cross the natural barrier be tween the bloodstream and the brain to reach the deprived cells. But dopa, an amino acid that comes in three forms including L-dopa, crosses the barrier by a process not yet fully understood. It is broken down in the brain to yield the desired dopamine...
...have to be something of a politician, and no academic can take too much of that. There also has been a shift in student tactics, which are now designed to evoke a heavyhanded response from the university. Activists demand something they know in advance that the uni versity cannot yield, then scream bloody murder when it is not delivered. More and more, it is the confrontation and not the issues which are important...
...Mole' is a valuable and much-needed addition to Harvard's media. The first issue was reasonably interesting in layout and style, and one hopes the content will remain as rich in its occasional yield as this issue has been...
Part of the nutritional problem is caused by ignorance and custom: the black Southern diet is based on the pig. Southern pigs yield some meat, but that doesn't last long. At pigkilling time--usually near the beginning of fall--families have a few meals of bacon and pork loin. From then on, dinner consists of the other pig parts--the ears, the tail, the chittlins (intestines), and--worst of all--the fatback...