Word: dividends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of inch-by-inch progress in Vienna and Geneva only underscored warnings that there will be no quick "peace dividend" for the overstretched federal budget. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's planned $180 billion in Pentagon cuts through 1995 amount to little more than deletions in the military's wish list. Nuclear-arms control saves little money because it normally results in destruction of hardware that has already been paid for and often requires expensive verification methods. Reducing conventional forces could save money, but not much: defense-budget experts from the Rand Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree that...
...talkies and cellular telephones were blasting orders, tuning in scanners to chart the movements of the state police and faxing messages to union headquarters in Washington. And get this, John L.: the union actually launched a stockholders' proxy fight and succeeded in pressuring its employer to issue its first dividend since...
...plans to restructure its capital by declaring a 50-for-1 stock split. The move will reduce the value of the 16,000 voting bearer shares to about $3,300 each. The overhaul will also cut the price of Hoffmann-La Roche's 61,440 shares of nonvoting dividend-rights certificates, which the company calls Genussscheine or "joy certificates," from about $95,000 to $1,900 and eliminate a cheaper class of stock that was nicknamed Baby Roche. If holders approve the restructuring, as expected, the company will have a total of 800,000 voting shares and 3.3 million certificates...
Icahn will extract a rich payoff. Texaco agreed to pay a special shareholder dividend of $2 billion, nearly $340 million of which will go to the raider. The money will come from the oil firm's $7 billion in proceeds from assets it has sold off since last June, partly at Icahn's urging...
...should encourage equity investment and discourage excessive debt % through changes in the tax laws. Specifically, the double tax on dividend payments by corporations should be eliminated. In many European countries, companies are taxed only on retained earnings and not on profits distributed as dividends. This is not the case in the U.S., where dividends are taxed first as corporate income and then as personal income. The European method favors dividend payments and makes stocks more attractive to investors; it should be adopted in the U.S. At the same time, we should limit the federal tax subsidies of speculative corporate debt...