Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summit last February and vowed to take action. They promised to devise a rating system for TV shows that would alert parents to programs containing high levels of violence, sex or rough language. With these ratings as a guide, parents could lock out objectionable shows by using the V chip, a device mandated in this year's Telecommunications Act and scheduled to be installed in new TV sets starting...
...been working for the past two summers at home in the biggest trauma center in the state, so I guess I was kind of spoiled," says Alden J. "Chip" MacDonald...
...Seminoles sport a well-rounded roster and several international-caliber swimmers, among them Chip Haberstroh, Stephen Parry and fourth-place Olympic finisher Brendon Dedekind...
People once bought stocks primarily because of the notion that the company would return a chunk of its earnings to them in the form of a hefty dividend. How quaint. The average blue-chip company now pays such a stingy dividend that the yield, which is the dividend divided by the stock price, is less than 2%--a payout so low it had been considered imponderable for most of this century. Yet here it is, another landmark racing past the windshield of this bull-market dragster. Should you care if the typical stock now yields a paltry 1 point something...
...which is why the yield sank to last week's low of 1.99% without disrupting the bull market. Today companies hold back more of what they earn, opting not to increase dividends but to reinvest in operations or buy stock on the open market. This year, for example, blue-chip companies will report record high earnings but pay out a record low portion of those earnings as dividends (37%, vs. a post-World War II average of 52%).That's O.K., so long as reinvesting and buying back shares have their intended effect of pushing the stock higher. Tax issues...