Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's faculty is not much more diverse than it was a hundred years ago. While its student body has diversified in recent years, the yield of Black first years last year, plummeted dramatically. The staff could have written about the necessity for addressing both problems...
...addition to Mittelman, Jacobson and Meyer, HMC Vice President Timothy Peterson also cleared half a million dollars in fiscal 1992. Peterson, who manages the company's high-yield portfolio, earned $547,373, compared with the $400,666 he was compensated in fiscal...
Mulroney will yield in mid-June, when his party chooses a successor, who will serve as Prime Minister until parliamentary elections are held, probably in September. Defense Minister Kim Campbell, 45, leads a passel of undeclared P.C. pretenders. The likely opponent, for now, would appear to be Jean Chretien, 59, chief of the Liberal Party, which led the Conservatives 45% to 25% in the latest poll...
...mood of sunny optimism that Clinton's program really will reduce deficits. In the bond market's calculus, a lower deficit equals less government borrowing equals higher bond prices equals lower interest rates (which move in the opposite direction). For the moment, that became a self-fulfilling prophecy: the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds fell to barely more than 7%, the lowest since such bonds were first issued in 1977. By Friday those prospects had begun to cheer stock traders too. Monday -- who knows...
...Health to pick Jacobs to head their new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring costs of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments -- AIDS, cancer, arthritis, back pain -- have yet to yield to standard medicine. In the breach, Americans have turned with growing enthusiasm to an array of unorthodox remedies, including hypnosis, biofeedback, homeopathy, acupuncture and herbs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a third of the population today consults alternative healers, shelling out nearly $14 billion a year for their...