Word: yield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Geneva talks were about to break down over that contentious point last week when Gorbachev decided to yield to the U.S. demand. Having won support from the Politburo, all that remained for Gorbachev was to secure agreement from Afghanistan President Najibullah, a former secret-police chief who is reportedly displeased with the Soviet pullout plan. Gorbachev summoned Najibullah to Tashkent, 200 miles north of the Soviet-Afghan border, where the two men conferred along with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. No details of the talks were released, but a Western diplomat in Moscow said, "I think it is a fair...
...Last year," said Fitzsimmons, "our yield onBlack students jumped 10 percent, from 55 to 65percent, much to the credit of our minorityrecruiting staff...
They'd booed Rice when the Opening Day line-ups were announced, before he'd had a chance to prove himself one way or the other. They'd cheered Lee Smith before he'd had a chance to throw a pitch at Fenway Park, let alone yield a two-run homer to Alan Trammell...
Thompson said she thought controversy from theDalton case probably would not affect admissionsat all. If the case has in any impact, she said,it would more reduce the yield rate rather thanthe application rate. "I think students here seethe controversy as fairly healthy, even if theydon't see the decision as healthy," Thompson said...
Unlike the basic unit of conventional computer programming -- the algorithm, which details a precise series of steps that will yield a precise result -- those rules (referred to in computerese as heuristics) state a relationship that is likely, but not guaranteed, to yield an outcome. Heuristics allow computers to deal with situations that cannot be reduced to mathematical formulas and may involve many exceptions. It is the kind of reasoning that governs countless everyday decisions, ranging from the mundane, such as choosing the appropriate clothes for a job interview, to the apocalyptic, such as deciding whether a Soviet missile launch...