Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yield for high school seniors accepting College admission rises to nearly 80 percent, the highest figure in decades...
...begins planning a second Counter Teach-In. However, by the end of the month, campus events yield the spotlight to events taking place in the nation's capital...
Late on May 9, after the sky spies make their passes, technicians rush in vans delivering the five nuclear test devices, cutting corners to get the blasts ready. It normally takes a week to position calibration equipment to measure the yield and effects of the explosions, but the Indians do not have time for all that. "The goal was simply to see if they could pop these things off quickly," a U.S. intelligence official told TIME. "It was more important to them to do it than to get all the appropriate data...
...Monday, Indian soldiers descend on villages just a few miles from the desert test range and order the pacifist Bishnoi herdsmen, who refuse to kill animals or cut down trees, to evacuate. At precisely 3:45 p.m., three devices explode in five seconds: a normal fission bomb, a low-yield bomb for tactical battlefield use and something like a hydrogen bomb, which U.S. officials later insist could have been only a less powerful "boosted" weapon using tritium fuses to amplify the fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful...
...minutes later, a staff member wails, "Oh, my God. That's not possible. We've been watching that site." Not very well, apparently. Less than 48 hours later, Washington is surprised again when India sets off two more test blasts--of much smaller, sub-kiloton yield--defiantly going ahead after the Administration has warned India to expect sanctions. The five tests reveal that India is designing a nuclear arsenal ranging from bomblets for blasting open a mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate cities. "The Indian leadership has gone berserk," says Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan...