Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colony also reminds us that these towns constituted an actual frontier for the colonists, a territory uncharted for them in which to institute their conception of civilization from a clean slate. The inter-actions between the Americans of the Archbuilder colony seem so elemental, summon such basic dilemmas and yield such unproductive results that the reader can only wonder why the Wild West was not indeed wilder...
Mary L. Naber '98, a joint concentrator in religion and economics, wrote a technical thesis focused on what she terms "debunking the public misconception that investing with ethical criteria will yield a low return" which she hopes to rewrite for publication in a finance or investment journal...
...painful to the ears. The distinctive clicking of the skipping CDs provides a percussive element, and various other layers of sound are layered above this to create reasonably cohesive compositions. The end result, though, isn't terribly exciting on first listen. Repeated listenings (Dok must be actively listened to) yield more; Popp's subtlety emerges. If you're willing to put the time into it, Dok is an interesting record; it's not, however, one for dilentantes...
...screwball and curveball were working, [and] I may have had a little more pop on the ball," said Cupp, who did not yield an extra base hit. "It was nice to have a warm day to play, since you don't get tight in between innings...
...information superhighway does its best to run in a straight line. A search for the word "hockey," will yield "puck.com"; searching for "weather" produces copious charts and myriad maps. Predictable. But throw a loaded word like "noir" into the query box, and suddenly this so-called super-highway has more twists and curves than the line for Space Mountain. "Noir" is certainly one of the most frequently used and misused terms in scholastic, artistic, and intellectual circles, and the Web proves no exception; a search turned up 1,664 sites that use the word in one capacity or another...