Word: yielding
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When matriculation time comes, however, Harvard always reaps splendid results. Acceptances of admission have been hovered around 75 percent for years, far outstripping any other Ivy League institutions. In early action, the yield has been 90 percent. This phenomenon is the main reason why Harvard can afford to run an early action program--most students who apply really do want to come here...
...higher order by filming extemporaneous situations as they unfold. But despite his film maker's constant reiteration of his belief that "What happens happens for a reason. Everything has a meaning," the neurotic and nervous director, who has often been called the Iranian-American Woody Allen, refuses to yield to Fate...
...policy of distribution requirements is paramount. A student who graduates with a willingness to explore and a desire to engage her interest should be the end goal of the College's mission to prepare students for the "vigorous life of the mind"--a mission which seeks to yield students who leave Harvard not with regret but with satisfaction...
...1870s Henry Adams wrote that all you have to do to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution is chart the course of the American presidency from George Washington to Ulysses Grant. Downhill Darwin: a century later the process would yield a choice between a south Georgia peanut farmer and a washed-up Hollywood actor...
...Diversity, the pact signed by 160 countries at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. "This new report represents an unprecedented number of scientists," says Dorfman, "The problem with biodiversity studies in the past is that they used too small a sample to yield significant results, or studied a specific ecosystem and then make grandiose claims for the data. If this is as wide a sample as claimed, it could be very important...