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...shock, then, that the share of earnings that S&P 500 companies pay as cash dividends has eroded steadily since the past recession, in 1991. Then companies paid out 75% of earnings as dividends. The ratio fell to an all-time low of 33% last year. Amid the current slump, some companies have cut their dividends?and others might join them as their profits get squeezed. Yet here's why dividend-paying stocks might come back...
...Well, I think a lot of us are still in shock, attempting to come to terms with it. I don’t know what we’re in shock at. It’s not exactly at the amount of the destruction. Other things have been destroyed through our lifetime; a higher number of people have died in a lot of combat situations. This, you can’t quite come to terms with it, you can’t quite grapple with it. It’s a really direct challenge to our idea of?...
Rosen especially shines in these sequences, shedding her elusive guise and emerging as a powerful figure that commands the attention of all those in the theater, on stage and off. As Abida plays off of her, the duo create a riveting electricity that assails an audience torn between pity, shock and amazement, and which itself acts as an extra, voyeuristic character in the play...
...says Jedediah Purdy `97, author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today and another upcoming zeitgest-chaser about globalization. Purdy has thought a bit about irony, and he has thought it through a bit more than the people who announced its demise. Initial shock meant parody was paralyzed, but only temporarily...
Unfortunately, not bumped were representatives of a Boston coalition for peace. The man had long black hair, tied back into a pony-tail, and a poorly trimmed moustache. The woman had her head shaved to ear level topped by a shock of short, bleached-blond hair. They looked like the kind of pinko-liberal bogey-men who Salient editors see in their nightmares. They spoke immediately about the United States’ legacy of propping up murderous Middle Eastern dictators and violating human rights around the world. When asked what peaceful alternative to war they would suggest, one offered that...