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...reluctant to yield to student and Faculty pressure. He wrote two letters addressing divestment from South Africa in which he explained his support for University policy...
...theory at the time was that bigger wheat meant bigger yield,” Becker says. But Borlaug’s dwarf wheat used its energy to produce edible grain and not the inedible stalk, thus significantly increasing the yield of the crop...
...CLAIM If you change your thinking and your attitude--and eat "high yield" foods--you'll change your weight...
...year, you would have a face value of about 2.5% more, or $1,025. (If consumer prices drop, so does the face value, but never below your original investment.) The tradeoff is that TIPS carry lower interest rates than ordinary Treasuries. The 10-year benchmark Treasury recently yielded 4.72%, while the 10-year benchmark TIPS yielded just 1.99%. You come out ahead with TIPS only if their yield plus the inflation rate is greater than the Treasury yield over the time you hold the bonds...
...moment, TIPS may not be the best buy. As inflation worries have gathered steam over the past year, investors have rushed to buy TIPS, driving up prices and bringing down yields. At current yields, inflation would have to average 2.73% over the next 10 years just to make the 10year TIPS break even with the standard Treasury. Many money managers doubt that inflation, which currently sits at 2.3%, will get that high in the near term. "I would look for a better entry point," says Wan-Chong Kung, who helps manage $10 billion in bond funds at U.S. Bancorp Asset...