Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invest mainly in actual property--not developers' mortgages. The stocks, while no longer cheap, have a lot going for them, including secure dividend yields of more than 6%. The security lies in the federal requirement that REITs pay out 95% of their income. The hefty dividends provide a cushion when the market falls. From March 11 through last week, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 9.8% while REITs fell just 5.4%.. During the four years through 1996, negative average returns were reported for 16% of stocks in the broad-market Russell 3000 index. That was true of only...
After the ash, some volcanoes produce what is known as a pyroclastic flow, a ground-hugging cloud of superheated gas and rock that forces a cushion of air down the mountainside at up to 100 m.p.h., incinerating anything in its path. Other mountains spew that signature substance of the volcano: lava. (On this point Dante's Peak was wide of the scientific mark, concocting a fictitious mountain that produces both substances.) Lava moves at speeds ranging from less than 1 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h...
...three agents from the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Justice Department who were at the motel that evening. Sutton's roommate at the Lorraine was another CRS agent, James Laue, who rushed from their room onto the balcony with the towel that Ralph David Abernathy used to cushion King's head. According to Sutton, he was never questioned by the FBI and, to the best of his knowledge, neither was Laue, who has since died. Neither of them saw anything, says Sutton, but he's troubled by the fact that the FBI never tried to find out if they...
...Saints took the lead once again with 54 seconds left in the first period to give St. Lawrence a 3-2 cushion entering the second period...
...about the things it can buy; back when he was a civilian, he bought his suits off the rack at Dillard's in Little Rock, ate cheap, rarely took a vacation. Instead, the obsession is about the things money can do: open doors, grease wheels, make friends, cushion blows...and win elections...