Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feaster's two-game totals for the weekend are impressive by any standard: 64 points, 20 rebounds, seven assists and six steals. Her career totals are simply awe-inspiring: 2,013 points, 1,027 rebounds, 271 steals and 212 assists...
Automated teller machines (ATMs) allowed banks to cut operating costs by replacing human tellers with electronic cash dispensers. And what was once a novelty is quickly becoming a standard. Many large banks are now offering free ATM use but charging service fees for speaking with a human teller...
...this the overtone of Greek tragedy is how utterly avoidable it was, if the President had exercised the slightest bit of restraint. Already given a lot of slack by voters who believed he was an adulterer but elected him anyway, the President had only to comply with the minimal standard of presidential marital conduct: Don't have sex in the White House with a woman not your wife (no one thought to add "intern"). In these sexually perilous times, we all know lawyers and businessmen who won't meet in a hotel room with a colleague of the opposite...
Cash dividends to shareholders are disappearing quicker than Bill Clinton's credibility. Last year companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 paid out only 37% of their earnings as dividends, an all-time low. The average payout since 1945 is 52%. Corporate stinginess has helped drop the S&P 500 dividend yield (dividend divided by stock price) to 1.6%--so subterranean that merely calling it an all-time low doesn't do it justice. It is less than half the postwar average yield of 4.1% and way below the previous low-water mark...
...catches: they carry a jumbo $11,000 price tag, and they aren't wired to display movies in the upcoming high-definition TV standard. The first HDTV sets, due out this fall, will look more like refrigerators than wall hangings, and there still isn't any HDTV for them to show...