Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will the demonstration by itself yield beneficial results for the anti-war movement. The war will not be brought to a close by draft resistance, civil disobedience, marches, and peace vigils. Confrontations are matters of individual conscience, not political expediency. Every demonstrator this weekend should realize that his protest is fruitless unless he returns to his community determined to organize voters against...
...citrus fruit production. In the last three years, Cubans have planted twice as many citrus trees on the Isle of Pines and in the wsetern province of Pinar del Rio as there are in Israel--one of the world's largest fruit exporters. These trees are now beginning to yield the first heavy crops of oranges, lemons and grapefruit...
Government plans to increase crop yields are based on hopes to change the type of plant harvested. At the moment, Cuba averages 40 tons of cane per acre, while Jamaica, with essentially the same climatic conditions, yields 60 tons an acre. In Hawaii, the figure is 200 tons. The Cuban economic planners are now slowly replacing old cane plants with new ones which yield much more sugar. But this is a slow process because cane lasts for 10 or 15 years and only 10 per cent of the entire crop is replanted each year...
...district's difficulties yield to the dramatic plan approach so easily. Even the most efficient treatment plant faces the problem of "sludge disposal"--what to do with the stuff that is taken out of sewage being treated. The conventional approach has been to deposit the good in what are euphemistically called "sanitary lagoons,"but these are understandably unpopular with the lucky ones who live nearby...
...charges are sliced, Medicare's Part A has cost so much more than estimated that bills now in Congress, which seem certain to be passed, will raise the general Social Security tax by two-tenths of 1%, one-tenth each to be paid by employer and employee, to yield an additional $600 million a year...