Some analysts said he overpaid, and the deal has not yielded big returns.
But Millennium's gene databases have not yielded a single marketed drug, either for Millennium or any of the partners who ponied up big bucks.
The second cause of disillusion is a sense that Mr Sarkozy's reforms, which he promised would boost growth, jobs and pay, have not yielded results.
One is education, where Panama's spending has not yielded good results.
"Contacts made by the special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi have so far not yielded a flicker of hope to put this crisis on the exit track, " Mr al-Arabi said on Monday at an economic summit in Saudi Arabia.
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Both leaders will have to spend the next few weeks convincing their domestic audiences that they have gained and not yielded to the other - a task perhaps a little easier for the recently re-elected Indian prime minister than for his Pakistani counterpart, who is politically on shakier ground.
That, alone, would not have yielded such success.
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GNA. Moreover, the data from these experiments had not been fully analysed, and so they could not have yielded the results Dr Pusztai claimed, even if he had merely got the name of the lectin wrong.
Twitter is generally used to broadcast messages to the public, so the hacking might not immediately have yielded any important secrets.
If development programs are curtailed their absence will not be noticed on the battlefield because the weapons they would have yielded are not yet there, and the programs usually have a small domestic political footprint due to the absence of a production line and articulated supplier base.
They have yielded powers not just to Brussels, but to independent central banks (for 11 of them, to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt), and to sub-national governments in their own regions.
Federal governments in India have yielded more, not less, space to states on matters ranging from the economy to culture.
Drilling yielded low margins that did not justify its claim on capital, so the oil majors outsourced it.
But not even his big-hitting heroics, which yielded 44 off 30 balls, were enough and he was the last man to fall with five balls remaining.
While some of my referrals to those regulators have yielded promising results, the experience is not uniform and the level of feedback has not proven fully satisfactory.
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If you pay at the airport, it worked out that being about 10 pounds (in weight, not sterling) over the expected baggage total weight yielded a fee that was almost the same as the original ENTIRE TICKET.
But that will matter little to Hodgson as he contemplates the solid defending that yielded his side's first clean sheet since August, not to mention the possibility of sealing a top-half finish at Newcastle next weekend.
But a simple pre-game check by Johnson would have yielded the fact that Burress shot himself in the right thigh, not the left.
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The search for linguistic universals yielded interesting data on languages, but after decades of work, not a single proposed universal has withstood scrutiny.
But these public expressions have not, by the time of this writing, at the end of 2006, yielded a sufficient international response.
Prior to the game, both coaches had promised more positive approaches from their sides following conservative showings in their opening games, which yielded them a point a piece, and so it proved in an entertaining match that not only improved on what Group A had offered, but what the tournament on the whole has provided thus far.
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