Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...term effectiveness leads logically to battle, so the Administration's goal of crippling the worst of Saddam's war-fighting capacity appears unattainable without resort to force. The President has danced around this objective for weeks, but the evidence grows that merely restoring the status quo ante will not yield "security and stability" in the gulf, one of Bush's publicly stated goals. As he told Congress last week, America wants "to curb the proliferation of chemical, biological, ballistic-missile and, above all, nuclear technologies...
...experimental new strategy to give the Harvard women's soccer team more offensive power didn't quite do the right stuff Saturday in Providence. The yield: a 2-1 overtime loss to a tenacious Providence Friars squad...
EVEN after those deep-pockets fill the coffers of Harvard's endowment, the obsession with financial considerations at the expense of ethics remains a serious problem. Harvard's growing stake in venture capital investments is not a problem by itself. We recognize that high yields on the endowment are good for all of us. We object, however, to the total lack of oversight by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) over such investments. Harvard Management Corporation (HMC), which controls the University's investments, has sunk more than a billion dollars into high-risk, high-yield "private placement" investments...
...Cutting the tax on capital gains from 28% to 19%. As investors rush to collect their gains at lower tax rates, this measure would yield as much as $5 ! billion in new revenues next year. (There would be a tax loss later...
...Think twice about buying annuities. GOs are probably safer, and their yield is not just tax deferred, it's tax free...