Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychiatrist Dr. Edward Gripon, suggested the tattoos may have been a way to make the 5-ft. 7-in., 165-lb. King look forbidding to threatening black inmates. By standing up to blacks, another witness said, he became part of a group known as "peckerwoods," whites who would not yield money or sexual favors to blacks...
...surprising backlash has developed. For starters, sporting a big dividend yield on turn-of-the-millennium Wall Street is like going to school with a KICK ME sign stuck to your back. You'll probably get pummeled. Investors want growth and capital gain. Period. That's apparent in today's fury to own money-losing, dividendless Internet and other tech stocks. Meanwhile, there is some question whether the rash of REITs will smooth the real estate cycle as advertised. The theory goes like this: with many real estate companies dependent on stock sales to fund projects, Wall Street becomes...
...learned lately that principle in politics often has to yield to pragmatic compromise. That's life. But there are still some times when compromise is too costly. Consider the events of the past week...
According to a UMass press release, in order to offset the decrease in minority students in its incoming classes, the school will take specific steps to improve the yield of students of color. UMass'yield for students of color is currently lowerthan for non-minority students...
According to Lewis, while Harvard tries toattract a diversity of applicants, it does nottake special steps to encourage minorities toattend once they have been accepted. The yield forminorities is the same as the yield fornon-minorities, she added...