Word: yieldingness
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The Saria family and other tea producers are getting some help from the Indian government. State research institutes have committed $18 million to developing higher-yielding seeds and machinery to suit small growers, and the government is looking at introducing electronic auctions to make transactions faster and fairer, especially for...
Likewise, humans have lent the cork crop a big helping hand. The cork oak tree, whose thick, regenerating bark is shaved off to make cork, covers about 10,400 sq. mi. (2.7 million hectares) in its native Mediterranean habitats of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Italy, Tunisia and France. Yielding cork...
The pearl market changed in the early 1890s, however, when Japan's Kokichi Mikimoto first successfully cultured pearls, artificially mimicking the natural process and allowing pearls for the first time to be matched for necklaces. A century later, Chinese farmers have further perfected this technique, yielding more than 1,500...
The tension mounted, extra minutes becoming extra hours, regulation yielding to overtime upon overtime. Deadlines were missed, nails were bitten, and over 100 shots were rifled at the net. And still two zeroes remained on the Kohl Center scoreboard: one beneath Harvard, a 23-win team making its fifth straight...
On the other hand, we have a Harvard community. But the corporate mentality has taken over much of this, too, yielding a consumer model of education (what will you shop for this semester?); and in the end, a whole generation of Harvard graduates enter the world as I-bankers and...