Word: yield
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Copies of the composite gene were shipped to the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia, where they were inserted into 170 mouse embryos. The embryos were implanted into foster-mother mice, which produced litters last May. The yield was typical for such experiments: 21 apparently normal baby rodents...
This substantial yield can be attributed in large part to the stepped up efforts of the Harvard Campaign to drum up support specifically for undergraduate study, said Thomas W. Stephenson, director of Corporation and Foundation giving for the Development Office. While the University is "not attempting to drain support for the professional schools, the College needs [the support of corporations] very badly to continue its tradition of excellence...
...anything or that preconditions should be put to us by American leaders, including Secretary Shultz. We don't have to prove first that we are good boys, and only then will you be kind enough to talk about normalizing relations. You demand from us that we yield at the Geneva arms talks, at Madrid, over human rights, Afghanistan and Poland. We could make a similar menu of demands to the U.S. as a precondition...
...large competitive plus but also several minuses. On the positive side, the accounts will be federally insured for up to $100,000. Money-market mutual funds, by contrast, carry no federal insurance. But bank and thrift customers will have to keep at least $2,500 in their high-yield deposits to avoid a penalty, while the funds typically require no more than $1,000. Savers also will be allowed to draw just three checks a month on the new accounts. Most money funds offer unlimited checking privileges...
...comes the tough decision: figuring out some combination of tax boosts and limits on future benefit increases that might actually yield the money. As all politicians (including the four Senators and three Congressmen who serve on the commission) know too well, any effective measures will raise howls of anguish from the young who pay the taxes, the elderly who dread any limit on benefits, or both. As expected, the commission reached no agreement last week. It has until Dec. 31 to submit its recommendations, and then it may file majority and minority reports...