Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Club of Rome's 1972 study The Limits to Growth raised fears that unchecked population growth might lead to mass starvation. Later in the '70s, Lester Brown of Washington's Worldwatch Institute argued that the world's farmers were already pushing the practical limits of what good land, high-yield crops, irrigation and artificial fertilizers and pesticides could deliver...
...authorities are searching for the Washington representative and other B.C.C.I. protocol officers, but most have fled to Pakistan. In this investigation, many roads lead to Karachi, where the infamous black network is enduring its most desperate hour. As it falters, the testimony by once fearful witnesses is likely to yield a succession of startling details about one of history's most ornate and ruthless frauds...
...deeper problem is the government's fear that any kind of peace talks will turn into a gang-up by the U.S. and Arab nations to force Israel to give up the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza. Shamir is determined not to yield a square inch. Thus the talk in Jerusalem is less about how to get talks started than how to fend them off. Currently, Israeli officials are longing for the U.S. presidential campaign to start in earnest. Once the campaign is in full swing, they reason, no candidate will risk putting pressure on Israel to yield...
FARMERS. Agriculture has traditionally been the biggest beneficiary of the Colorado's water, receiving some 80% of the river's allocated yield. This is chiefly because the farmers and ranchers got there first. A central tenet of Western water law -- a fiendishly complex body of statutes and precedents -- is the concept of "first in time, first in right." Whoever was initially granted a legal claim to water tended to keep it and, all other things being equal, to pass it down to descendants...
...addition to saving resources, he says, greater integration will mean more progress. Rudenstine says that a collaborative effort by several schools may yield promising results in areas such as primary and secondary education, health care and the environment...