Word: yielding
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...year-old earning about $57,000 a year, with just over 20 years of service, would already have a $69,000 nest egg, more than double the value of a traditional pension at that point. The downside: by the time that person retires, the cash-balance plan will yield $138,000, vs. $180,000 under traditional plans. "The old system was designed for the iron age, when people were beholden to one company their entire life," says David Zemelman, CBS senior vice president of corporate human resources. "Now your money never stops working...
...researchers, many drug companies are hot on the trail of the disease. ?And pharmaceutical companies don?t spend the time and money to study things unless they think they have a good chance of developing a drug,? says Gorman. Thursday?s report gives encouragement that further study may eventually yield a payoff. But for now many questions still remain to be answered, not the least of which is this: If presenilin is indeed shown to be involved in causing Alzheimer?s disease, is it the only, the main or one of several causative factors...
...Harvard may bring together the most interesting people in the world between the ages of 18 and 23, but it's just an amazing coincidence. According to this theory, Harvard apparently plays no role either in the selection of students or in their decision to come here, an admissions yield higher than any other university in the country...
From that first small pile grew production reactors that bred plutonium for the first atom bombs. Moving to Los Alamos in 1944, Fermi was on hand in the New Mexican desert for the first test of the brutal new weapon in July 1945. He estimated its explosive yield with a characteristically simple experiment, dropping scraps of paper in the predawn stillness and again when the blast wind arrived and comparing their displacement...
...Mexico, American plant pathologist Norman Borlaug starts developing high-yield grains that, two decades later, will fuel the green revolution...