Word: yield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...YIELD ALONE. Some preferred shares are offering dangerously high yields, like Mirant's 19%. Remember, preferreds can cut or stop paying dividends entirely if the company starts to tank--and a skyrocketing yield is often the first sign of such trouble...
...National Forest, and pot farms everywhere from Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest to California's Sequoia National Park, last week's bust was a first. A hiker had discovered 40,000 lavender-hued opium poppies growing in the Sierra National Forest, south of Yosemite. The plants, enough to yield 40 lbs. of raw opium, were in a clearing on a 3,000-ft.-high slope scorched by a forest fire two years ago. When law-enforcement officers burst onto the scene, three men in camouflage outfits were scoring the poppy pods and squeezing out the brown juice. They fled...
...mother who dedicated her life to nurturing her children, I found the statement "Nature is designed for nurture" uplifting and reassuring. While parents' nurturing may not always yield the desired results in their children, it is a comforting thought that according to our latest understanding, the outcome would be a lot worse without a nurturing environment. Best of all, at 66 years young, I can claim to be still growing, this time with science backing me up. JULIANNA CSONGOR King of Prussia...
...should have done this long ago," says Jeffrey Van Sinderen, a specialty retail analyst for B. Riley & Co. Leveraging another chain's infrastructure, he says, could have reduced the high costs that helped drive the retailer into the bankruptcy from which it emerged in April. And the partnership could yield new customers--moms as well as kids--for Saks...
...that alienate the local population, even generating sympathy for the guerrillas. The U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq has opted for large-scale sweeps, involving upward of 1,000 troops and air power, through territory in which anti-American forces are believed to be hiding. And while these sometimes yield handfuls of enemy combatants, in both places reports from the ground suggest they also rouse considerable local hostility. Which is exactly what the insurgents hope to achieve...