Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Appiah expects to hold conferences with anumber of student organizations in order to gaugestudents' sentiments toward race relations. Hesaid that if those meetings yield very differentviewpoints, then his committee may distribute acampus-wide survey...
...Black students in the latest crop of first-years, in contrast to the 132 Black students who enrolled last year. While 62 percent of Blacks accepted into the Class of '94 and 69.6 percent of those accepted to the Class of '95 enrolled at Harvard, the most recent yield was only 56.5 percent. The Admissions Office asked some Black students who rejected Harvard where colleges they went and what motivated their decisions...
This year's incoming class once again boasts the highest yield of any graduate school in the country, with 56 percent of those accepted choosing to attend. Sixty-one percent of the 601 first-years are male, 39 percent female...
...breaking down and falling apart, there is one that may actually be coming back together. It is Cyprus, whose very name has for more than 30 years been a synonym for tribal hatred, religious strife and diplomatic failure. Intensive negotiations at the United Nations this fall may finally yield a breakthrough...
...unusual for a modern construction excavation to yield an interesting archaeological relic or two, but this one was a treasure. The site was the southern tip of Manhattan, where workers last summer began preparing the foundation for a $276 million, 34-story federal office tower and pavilion. Twenty feet below the surface, the diggers uncovered a few human skeletons, then a few more -- and then more still. Archaeologists quickly found that this was no commonplace graveyard but one that early colonial maps called the "Negros Burial Ground," the interment site, from 1710 to 1790, of untold numbers of African slaves...