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...shock, then, that the share of earnings that S&P 500 companies pay as cash dividends has eroded steadily since the past recession, in 1991. Then companies paid out 75% of earnings as dividends. The ratio fell to an all-time low of 33% last year. Amid the current slump, some companies have cut their dividends--and others might join them as their profits get squeezed. Yet here's why dividend-paying stocks might come back...
...thing we asked of our offense at the beginning of the year was to be a good team protecting the football,”said Murphy, whose team entered the weekend with the second-lowest turnover ratio in Division I-AA. “The kids have really bought into it and that’s the biggest difference in our offense...
...Advocates of the program are quick to point out Nunn-Lugar's impressive cost-benefit ratio: For slightly less than three-tenths of one percent of U.S. military expenditures, Nunn-Lugar has been responsible for deactivating 5014 warheads, destroying 384 ICBMs and eliminating 365 ICBM silos. And while Lugar a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, continues to lobby for funding for the program, the 2002 federal budget calls for cuts of about $140 million. That?s quite a hit for an initiative whose seven-year operating costs were only $3 billion - less than the annual cost...
...Also on Tuesday, more goat entrails from the chip sector, with the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (yes, that spells SEMI) announces its July book-to-bill ratio. Watch Intel (whose expected 54-percent price cut on is high-end chips is due on Sunday) and AMD for meaning; analyst sentiment on the sector remains mixed...
...songs with a local preacher, two men sitting by the fireplace playing cards and the line to the beauty shop out the door. Families were raving about all the personal attention. There are now 32 residents--and, during the day, six full-time caregivers (an impressive 5-to-1 ratio). Good care, it seems, can't be done on the cheap...