Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though work on a vaccine is being pushed, none can be ready this year. Last week came a hint that German measles may be one of the first virus diseases to yield, at least partially, to drug treatment. University of Michigan researchers told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology that amantadine, a drug synthesized by Du Pont chemists, works against German measles virus in the test tube. And it is safe enough to have been used with promising results on influenza patients. Such a drug may help children, but proving its safety for pregnant women will take years...
...again hitting his main theme: that the primary aim of the Communist revolution is achieving a prosperous Communism without resorting to nuclear war. Nor would he delude himself as to the difficulties of meeting that goal. When a Hungarian agronomist boasted at having surpassed the U.S. in wheat yield, Khrushchev put him in his place. "Don't fool yourself," he said. "The United States is doing better. The student in socialist countries is often afraid to work on the farm, afraid of cows and tractors. The agricultural institute in Moscow is too close to the ballet school...
Surprisingly, tobacco stems yield less tar and noxious gases than the leaves. So, said Wynder and Hoffmann, there is less risk in smoking cigarettes if finely shredded stems are left in the tobacco, or if they are made from compressed sheets of homogenized tobacco dust and stems. Finally, finer cuts of the tobacco leaf itself make a less hazardous cigarette than the coarse cuts...
Alaska is a churning focus of just such action. A rock current under the crust is pushing North America into the Pacific, where another current is moving toward the northwest. The two currents are at right angles to each other, and their force makes the crust yield sideways, forming the great Fairweather Fault running up the Alaskan coast. The fault is a prolific spawning ground for earthquakes, and at its northern end is another source of seismic trouble: the great Aleutian Arc, which was formed by Siberia pressing southeastward into the Pacific and is dotted with active volcanoes. The Fairweather...
...sent to Parliament a bill that would slap a 25% tax on the yield of German bonds held by foreigners. The tax, which will, in effect, lower the cur rent 6% yield on German securities to an unglamorous 4.5% , was greeted with dismay by foreign bondholders and Ger man bond brokers. Erhard also an nounced a second bill that will please businessmen more; by abolishing the much disliked 2.5% tax on the issue of stocks and bonds floated in Germany, it aims to encourage foreign companies to raise funds in Germany, thus stepping up the export of German capital...