Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flour to the Russians. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen said he would go along with it, though he urged the Administration to seek "sweeteners" in the form of political concessions. Wheat growers approved overwhelmingly, with or without sweeteners. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman pointed out that the deal would yield a handsome propaganda dividend by showing the world "which country has the agriculture that works." Fact is, both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are suffering from farm scandals-the U.S.'s a glut of subsidized agricultural products, the U.S.S.R.'s a shortage brought on by Communist dogmas...
...creatively employed, and staunch the "brain drain" to the U.S. by offering them the prestige and prospects for which many of the country's ablest men now cross the Atlantic. With heavy state support for their work and more "purposive use of research," he prophesied, British scientists will yield new products, new laboratories, new industries, new sources of world trade...
International feuding has flared because the oceans, from which primeval life came, have become more and more an important source of food for a world faced with the prospect of overpopulation. Since the beginning of the century, the fishing yield of the world has increased tenfold, from 4,400,000 tons to 45 million tons; by 1970, the catch is expected to equal 61 million tons. More than 200 countries send fishing boats to sea to help feed their populations, and 48 of these countries account for the great bulk of the world's fish catch, amounting to more...
...expects the University to reverse its decision without trial. The general accord in the Administration and among the Masters should not be lightly dismissed, nor should the advantages of the system be overlooked. But before the system can yield positive results a great deal of additional thinking and planning must be done. In the end, a carefully devised multi-level rent plan may look attractive after...
...seasickness, she found it "very objectionable" in principle. In the 1880s, when an early tunnel project actually bored two miles into the chalk near Dover, the Sunday Times worried that "We should have an amount of fraternizing between the discontented denizens of the great cities . . . which would yield very unsatisfactory results on this side of the Channel...