Word: dividends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliminating the cost of servicing small shareholders. Even the owner of a single share, if he holds on to it, must be issued annual reports, proxy statements and an individual dividend check...
...boosted A. & P.'s sales, it has so far savaged A. & P. earnings. The company lost more than $50 million in the first three quarters of fiscal '72 (compared with a $16 million profit in the equivalent period of '71) and skipped a quarterly dividend last month for the first time since...
...years amid a virulent inflation rate that rose to 7.3% in 1972, has kept Umberto hopping from one crisis to another. Last year alone Fiat production fell short by 200,000 cars because of strikes. As a result, the company failed to show a profit or pay an interim dividend for the first time in its history. The prospects for an improved labor climate and an end to Italy's recession this year are mixed, but the younger Agnelli expects Fiat to end it in the black. Declares Umberto: "Our only defense is to be constantly on the offensive...
...book is at its best describing the follies committed by people and institutions that are supposed to be the epitome of reason and prudence. During the great splurge, dividend money in the hands of aggressive investors was often looked on as merely another tool to manipulate stock prices. As a source of stable income, the philosophy went, "dividends are for old ladies." The eventual losers included some of the hitherto most conservatively managed money groups in the country-including university endowment funds, whose trustees were urged to pursue "unconventional investing" by no less influential a benefactor than the president...
Considering the vast sums spent on Viet Nam, why will the once vaunted peace dividend be so small? The main reason: many of the benefits have already been parceled out during the slow, tortuous winding down of the war. The 10% income surtax that became effective in 1968, for example, was cut by three-quarters in 1970 and canceled altogether thereafter...