Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's new recruiting scheme may expand the applicant pool but does little to increase the yield, or percentage of students who decide to matriculate. And when other colleges are flaunting offers of perks and scholarships. Harvard's perceived indifference and inattentiveness seems to become yet another reason for them not to want to come...
...handbook was unimpressive: a kind of popcorn sampling of resources and officials that could do little to delve into the real roots of campus tensions. But that, perhaps, was Epps' intent. His race relations audit, conducted by the Harvard Negotiation Project, was an odd idea that also did not yield an ideal solution, but represented a sincere effort to solve the problem. So did some of Epps' other initiatives: the race retreat last fall, and the changes he instituted in Orientation Week...
Casey urged the class not to yield to these tendencies. "You have no right to criticize unless you contribute," he said...
...seem to be a message that breeds understanding, but it is an idea that So needs to think about. I, personally, am all for "cross-cultural" learning; I actually think it ideal and beautiful, but I find it absurd and insulting that So insist some people conform or yield while others...
...scientists as bovine somatotropin, or more simply, bovine growth hormone (BGH). Dairy farmers have known for decades that cows given booster shots of BGH would produce more milk -- up to 15% more. But the only available source of the hormone was the pituitary glands of butchered cows, which yield only minute quantities. Then, in 1982, scientists used new gene-splicing techniques to manipulate bacteria into mass-producing BGH. By the mid-1980s, four drug companies -- including Monsanto and Eli Lilly -- had applied to the FDA for permission to market the product...