Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world-view many students seek must be in sharp contrast to the prevailing scientific world-view, which is enshrined in official educational epistemology and exalted in modern society. Today's education breeds the sort of scientific experts who can't abide ambiguity, or anything that won't yield to scientific explanation. There is great need for people to be exactly the opposite...
...panel asserted that officer education on civilian campuses "strengthens our traditional civilian participation in and influence upon the military," where as other training approaches "yield more to domination by the military organization acting...
...food output, while population increased by 2%. Developing countries in Africa increased farm production by 2%, while population went up an estimated 2.5%. By contrast, the food-shy developing countries in Asia, where ancient methods of farming are gradually giving way to more efficient cultivation of high-yield strains of rice and wheat, increased their food pro duction by 5% for the second year in a row. The biggest gains were made by Malaysia (11%) and Thailand (8%). In the Western world, the U.S., Canada, Australia and Western Europe continued to accumulate huge surpluses of vital foodstuffs...
LAST YEAR'S nearly successful coup at the Coop is beginning to yield results. Next month Coop members will have the chance to approve some long-overdue revisions in the Coop's by-laws. If at least 25 per cent of the members bother to return their ballots. the structure of the Coop can become more representative of the membership and open to future improvements...
...seen as a valiant underdog surrounded by hostile giants. Its victory in that war was widely cheered, but as the border conflict ground on, the feeling began to develop that Israel was being a little too tough in its retaliation, a little too intransigent in its refusal to yield any of the occupied territories without an overall settlement. To avenge an El Al passenger's murder by terrorists in Athens, Israel destroyed 13 aircraft in Beirut. It has annexed all of Jerusalem. For the first time since the Biblical epoch, Jews have become military occupiers of other people's land...