Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weed out old gas guzzlers. Dividend-paying electric utilities tend to have appeal in a weak economy anyway, but with deregulation, some (Consolidated Edison, New England Electric) have shed capital-intensive parts of the business--generating power--to focus on transmission. In trying times, companies able to conserve cash should hold up best, even if it turns out that corporate buyers sent a false signal...
Such bullishness would mean a lot more if it persisted, say, until early next year. But there's a good chance it won't last that long. Profit margins are getting squeezed, and companies are running out of cash; some may not even be able to make good on the buybacks they've promised. Charles Clough, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, notes that the amount of cash that companies have left after investing in plant and equipment--which is the cash that funds most buybacks--has been dwindling for two years. By next year the till may be empty...
SENTENCED. JEREMY STROHMEYER, 20, convicted molester and murderer of seven-year-old Sherrice Iverson; to life in prison without parole; in Las Vegas. Strohmeyer asked for forgiveness but blasted his former friend David Cash for watching the brutal crime without intervening, saying of Cash, "He makes me sick...
...During business hours, drivers can takevouchers to our office and convert them to cash,"he continued. "But in the middle of the night,when no one is the wiser, drivers feel better withcash...
...able to identify the numbers on a touch-sensitive computer screen; press one banana followed by two trees and three triangles, for example, and the almighty unseen hand delivers a special reward. It was, said Columbia psychology professor Herbert Terrace, "like using your password to get money from a cash machine." So if an infinite number of monkeys are given an infinite number of ATMs, presumably one of them will eventually withdraw a hundred bucks and remember to get a receipt...