Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country has had on hand all the components necessary to make bombs. Last year Pakistan tested two new ballistic missiles. Leonard S. Spector, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, estimates that Pakistan's arsenal could contain up to 10 bombs of about the same yield as those the U.S. dropped on Japan...
...from Kuwait or the return of the Emir's family. With oil-price increases disturbing the world economy and with patience wearing thin, the world will inevitably turn to other issues, making it difficult to increase or even sustain the present level of economic pressure. If Saddam does not yield, the forced ejection of Iraqi troops by military action is the only remaining option. Some also advocate the destruction of Iraq's warmaking capability, speaking of almost bloodless "surgical" air strikes, the incompetence or disloyalty of Iraqi troops, sustained worldwide support if the U.S. invades without U.N. sanction...
...next step for scientists is to unify the electroweak force and gravity into a "Grand Unified Theory," and then, ultimately, combine this with the strong force to yield the modestly titled "Theory of Everything...
Although they expect the program to receive some private funding, club organizers said they aren't planning to yield a profit on the venture...
...general, I would say that it is just a great great thing to take a step away from Harvard just to get a focus on it," says Bradford D. Woloson '91-92, who spent last spring in London interning as a high-yield bond analyst...