Word: dividends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world. It is a role that will surely be affected by the staggering financial cost of the conflict. With that in mind, William Doerner of our Business section calculated the war's drain on the U.S. Treasury through the years and explained why the oft-mentioned "peace dividend" is not likely to materialize. Bob McCabe wrote a portrait of the leaders who have directed the North Vietnamese. Deborah Pierce, Alice George and Antoinette Melillo of our picture department compiled a photo gallery of war personalities who were once familiar to all but have since disappeared from view. More representative...
...projects. By contrast, the Viet Nam War never required quite enough of the nation's output to cause such shortages in civilian goods, and the U.S.'s spending on it has shrunk considerably in the past three years. Says Economist Edward Fried of Washington's Brookings Institution: "The peace dividend has virtually been paid...
John Maynard Keynes called profits "the engine which drives enterprise." Millions of Americans depend on that engine to a great degree not only for their jobs but also for financial growth through profit-sharing funds, pension funds and dividend payments. Profits are used to enrich not merely a relatively few corporate managers and big shareholders but also masses of wage earners. When profits are perking up, a company's management is more willing and able to grant wage and salary increases to its employees. High-profit companies can be expected to spend more than low-profit firms to invest...
Stane Kavcic, premier of the Republic of Slovenia, has proposed that companies sell dividend-paying stocks too. "Instead of taking a vacation, someone could give his money to an enterprise, which in turn could give him interest and maybe even something else as well," Kavcic says. His proposal has horrified some Communist purists. Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslavia's chief ideologist and a close associate of Tito's, argues that stock ownership is anti-Marxist because it inevitably involves the "exploitation of other people's work." But the need for more capital may eventually overcome such inhibitions...
...heavy industry in general or oil in particular which offer better combinations of risk and return than does Gulf. For example, Gulf's competitor Mobil Oil has shown a far greater earnings growth than Gulf (since 1968, Gulf's earnings have actually declined), better price performance and a comparable dividend yield (Mobil's dividends have increased). Whatever the precise balance of merits between Gulf and similar, but "good" capitalists, it is safe to say that in this case a solid argument can be made for divestment on economic grounds. Yale, financially much harder pressed than Harvard and so presumably quite...