Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meetings held Aug. 6, Director of the Office of Career Services (OCS) William Wright-Swadel presented stories of students continuously deciding against graduate school or modestly paying jobs in favor of those that yield an immediate payoff...
...fact, the percentage of those studentsaccepted by Harvard who chose to matriculate-knownas the admissions yield-climbed to a record highthis year, even without a formal change in aidpolicy...
...want to stay in the game but are looking for a relatively safe harbor, consider Real Estate Investment Trusts, whose 6% yields offer unusual protection. Or buy other high-yielding stocks--especially blue chips that you can count on to thrive long-term. High yield today is anything over 3%, a level that may indicate the stock has been unfairly trashed and will do well in coming quarters. Among the highest-yielding Dow stocks are Philip Morris (4.1%), J.P. Morgan (4.4%) and General Motors (3.5%). Other stocks to own might include those of consumer-products companies, a group that lost...
...interviews, no-videos, no-selling-tickets-the-normal-way frame of mind even before singer Eddie Vedder's appearance on the cover of TIME five years ago, seems to have relented. Not only has it released Single Video Theory, a home video of the band rehearsing for its current Yield album tour, but, horror of promotional horrors, a clip for Do the Evolution will soon pop up on MTV. The band released a statement about its new work, saying, "Basically, we've tried to make a good stoner video...
Despite the bloodletting, though, traditional measures still show the market to be more expensive than at any time before the current cycle. The S&P 500 dividend yield, which stood at 2.6% on the eve of the 1987 crash, has dropped to 1.5%. The S&P's price-earnings ratio, or P/E (based on expected earnings), is 21--down from 23 in July but still much higher than the previous peak of 19 in 1991, according to earnings tracker First Call. Meanwhile, market leaders still sport bubble-like P/Es: Coca-Cola, where unit sales are growing about 8% a year...