Word: yielding
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Diminishing returns, for those who slept through Economics 101, is the rule that explains why the second candy bar never tastes quite as good as the first and why doubling the amount of fertilizer on a crop field doesn't necessarily double the yield. But in the software industry, the second candy bar often tastes better than the first, and the third tastes even better...
...opera career. These days, though, her troubles have become increasingly unmanageable. Since last winter the virtuous psychiatrist, portrayed by Deidre Hall, on nbc's Days of Our Lives, has been possessed not by run-of-the-mill lust but rather by the devil himself. With eyes that turn a yield-sign yellow and a voice that sinks deep and demonic, Dr. Evans has misbehaved all over the fictional town of Salem. So far, she has burned down a church, unleashed a swarm of vicious bees and morphed -- with the help of movie-like special effects -- into a menacing black panther...
...Fargo the way they will the legions of rural-life researchers toiling at North Dakota State University. On the edge of chocolate-dark fields on the west side of the campus, the federal government has built a maze of greenhouses, labs and research facilities dedicated to spawning new high-yield varieties of bug-resistant wheat, potatoes, sunflowers and sugar beets. There the Northern Crop Sciences Lab, the Biosciences Research Laboratory and the Wheat Quality Laboratory attract millions each year in research grants. Nearby, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Mountain-Plains Consortium perform Washington-sanctioned studies on guardrails...
Lewis said that the combination of need-blind admissions and the commitment to providing financial aid to meet the total need of admitted students is an important factor in producing the College's high yield...
Records were again set for the yield amongminority groups. The number of African-Americansincreasing by four from last year's total...