Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record-high 214 Black students admitted, 143 have accepted Harvard's offer, for a yield rate of 66.8 percent--the third highest yield in 12 years, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...
...number of Asian American matriculants is at the lowest in three years, with 286 accepting admission at a yield rate of 81.5 percent. Despite the 5.8 point drop from last year's unusually high yield, the yield for Asian Americans is still the highest of all minorities...
...says FBI special agent Dick Swensen. Instead the FBI is continuing its psychological warfare. At all hours, agents blast harrowing noises out of loudspeakers -- the squeals of rabbits being slaughtered, the whine of a dentist's drill, the thunder of locomotives -- presumably in the hope that the Davidians might yield just to get some peace and quiet...
...they can't complain that they're out of practice. Powell's opponents also have to realize that whatever they do will not effect Powell's personal opinion. Instead, they should redirect the brunt of their fury at Powell's boss, Bill Clinton, who is much more likely to yield widespread protest. After all, if Clinton gave an order to fully integrate gays into the military tomorrow, Powell's only response would be a clipped...
...health care crisis will not yield to a quick-fix solution. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Task Force on Health Care Reform face a Herculean ordeal in sorting through the issues and wrestling with countless conflicting interests. Unless you have a Master's in health care administration, a quick glance at the structure of the current system would probably leave you thoroughly confused...