Word: portions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what times we should wrestle. How tough to be in Bosnia? How to lessen the never-ending tensions of the Middle East? How to confront the emergence of China? How often should the U.S. come to the rescue of struggling young democracies? We are handing over a significant portion of power to a woman--asking her to provide insight and judgment on matters which frequently mean life for some and death for others...
Founded in 1992, GospelFest devotes a portion of its program to inviting audience members and others in the room to share a moment of remembrance for loved ones who have died of AIDS by calling out their first names...
Wealthy "suburbanites" attend boarding schools just as they attend Harvard; sure, they make up a large portion of the student body, but to characterize either Harvard or boarding school as exclusively for "preppies" would be a misrepresentation. Boarding schools today take students from all over the world with all kinds of talents, interests and backgrounds. And truth be told, if you are white, rich, from Massachusetts and going to private school, you represent ever thing that Mr. Hicks and Harvard are trying to minimize in their admissions -- the last thing they want is a uniform student body of "Muffys...
...middle of the engrossing Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson portion of the show, an old advertisement for Converse basketball shoes came on. If memory has failed you, this was really one of the first star-specific basketball shoe ads to hit the airwaves...
...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 aside, a stock that carries a meager 2% dividend yield but goes...