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...single bushel of corn can yield 33 pounds of sweetener of the type used as a cheaper alternative to sugar and poured freely into soft drinks and candy. As demand grows for ethanol, there is less corn left for other uses, driving up its cost as an input. Coca-Cola has already said that it has faced cost increases for corn and high fructose corn syrup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethanol: Seek & Find | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...price issue is more problematic. Demand has driven corn prices from $2 per bu. to more than $4 in the past 15 months. Those prices have since fallen back to about $3.70. But if they climb again as a result, for example, of a drought that cuts the yield, then ethanol distillers, cattle feeders, hog and dairy farmers will be the first to pay the price. Shelling out more for corn would eventually translate into more expensive ethanol, as well as higher prices for beef, pork, chicken, eggs and milk--movement that the market is already seeing. Hormel Foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corn-Powered in Yuma | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...might not want to wait, opting instead for a binding early decision program elsewhere. And some may be admitted to a non-binding early action program and become convinced they wish to attend their “early” college despite being admitted later to Harvard, reducing our yield...

Author: By Sarah C. Donahue, William R. Fitzsimmons, and Marlyn MCGRATH Lewis | Title: New Possibilities in the Post-Early Admissions Era | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...There was certainly a lot of impressionistic evidence that the yield was affected by students’ and families’ fears,” Fitzsimmons says. “All of this was part of the same pattern...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Face of Reagan Cuts, Low-Income Admissions Drop | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...philosophy class and taking evening runs along the Charles. And I waited, as if meaning would drop from the sky and hit me. While I did discover the beauty of the Charles at sunset and learned a lot about Descartes’ existential crises, those pursuits did not yield much insight about myself...

Author: By Imran M. Saleh | Title: On Doing Well | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

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