1.   The coefficient on the default risk measure is expected to be negative, so that higher default risk reduces prices and increases yields.

2.   The Commission also recently banned bovine somatotropin, which increases the yield of dairy cattle.

3.   They also intend to increase yields by providing tractors, pumps and other machinery with their project aid.

4.   Analysts attributed the declines to increasing bond yields, which are a barometer of interest-rate expectations.

5.   Basically, the only way you can increase the yield from such a portfolio is to move it further toward the higher-risk end of the spectrum.

6.   Brown said the imbalance between population growth and food production will worsen unless population growth slows or scientists improve technology to increase crop yields.

7.   But it is another small nibble by what Consumer Action, an advocacy group, calls an aggressive strategy of increasing bank yield on cards.

8.   Falcao and many other farmers claim that modified soybeans increase crop yields, making farmers more competitive on the world market.

9.   For two years, Othman has worked with Garba, showing him how to increase his yield of crops with new methods of farming.

10.   He increased the yield by scaring the poop out of the birds by using dynamite, steamboat whistles and other sounds.