Word: omitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very respectable $255 million in 1973, Chrysler reported a shocking $52 million loss in 1974-by far the biggest in its 50-year history. The worst damage hit in the fourth quarter, when the company lost $73.5 million. With more bad news expected this year, the board voted to omit the 350 quarterly dividend-the first time it has had to do so since...
...plotted to first make Magruder and Mitchell, then Dean, the scapegoats so as to save himself. Even many of the transcripts released by the White House last April in a televised profession of belated candor were revealed by the playing of the tapes to have been edited to omit the most damaging statements and thus continue the coverup...
...dare you omit Baltimore Councilperson Barbara Mikulski in your litany of leaders? That oversight will come back to haunt...
...bail out any banks that get into trouble, even if that means increasing the nation's money supply faster than he would like. In the past few weeks, in fact, the Federal Reserve has lent $1 billion to Franklin National, a New York bank that had to omit its dividend because of heavy losses it had suffered speculating in foreign currency...
...there is one thing an electric utility is supposed never to do, it is omit a quarterly dividend; investors buy utility stocks primarily to get those dividends. Last week the unthinkable happened: New York's Consolidated Edison Co., the biggest U.S. power generator, skipped its dividend for the first time in its 89-year history. The news gave Wall Street a high-voltage shock. Con Ed stock promptly lost a third of its value, dropping from 18 to 12 (it closed the week at 12⅜), and the dive dragged down prices of many other utility stocks...