Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stimulate borrowing, ? la Greenspan? Not really. Japan?s interest rates are already less that 1 percent (as opposed to around 5 percent in the U.S., which is itself unusually low). And far from being in lending trim, Japanese banks are so shaky that people are trading their minuscule-yield savings accounts for mattresses and coffee cans...
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R.Fitzsimmons '67 notes that Harvard made itsfinancial aid changes for different reasons thanschools like Princeton, which had seen a declinein yield from middle- and lower-class applicants.In contrast, Harvard has seen a steady increase inyield. The policy changes were made in an effortto reduce the burden on financial aid students...
...Harvard's increasing yield allowed it totake its time when formulating its new financialaid offerings. In the meantime, Harvard made itclear to admitted students that it would respondto competitive aid offers on a case-by-case basis...
...Following a year that included a record number of early action applicants and early action acceptances, as well as a near-record number of applicants overall, Harvard announced that 79.7 percent of those accepted into the Class of 2003 agreed to enroll. The yield, up 0.6 percent from 1997-1998, is the highest among all American colleges and Harvard's highest in 25 years...
Within the United States and much of Canada, other colleges--propelled by their increasing wealth and the press's microscopic examination of every aspect of university life--offer Harvard meaningful competition. They may encroach more on Harvard's once unchallenged reputation than on the yield from admissions, but Harvard certainly faces constant comparisons with its competitors...