Word: yielding
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...chief Lisa Beyer. "His principal strategy is aimed at undermining the United States' traditional pro-Israeli stance." Arafat and other Palestinian leaders believe that if they can warm U.S. officials to the idea of Palestinian self-determination, and ultimately a Palestinian state, Israel will have no choice but to yield on the issue. Arafat's charm offensive "has so far worked well," says Beyer. It succeeded in getting Clinton to visit Gaza last year with nearly all the trappings of a state visit. Palestinians leaders believe the trip may have put the camel's nose in the tent, and Arafat...
Harvard does not seem to have suffered since the end of overlap. Its yield percentage, the percent of students who ultimately decide to accept admissions offers, remains far and away the highest in the country...
...member schools exchange data on tuition levels, student budget levels, the percentages of students on financial aid, average self help amounts, yield rates, application numbers and sources of grant aid for each of the member schools...
...likened a university's patent portfolio to "fine wines," saying that it takes time for new inventions to yield dividends...
...streamline sampling, the system identifies subjects not by their entire genetic blueprint but by tiny stretches of DNA coding, known as short tandem repeats that are just two to seven base-pairs long. Though little more than genetic gibberish, STRs yield remarkably accurate results. If three of the ministrands match a suspect's, the likelihood is 2,000 to 1 that police have the right person. Nine matches boost the odds to 1 billion to 1. FBI sampling rules require no fewer than 13 matches. "Its success as a crime-fighting tool is incredible," says Christopher Asplen, director...