Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which has been in effect for some time, stipulates that all bicyclists must follow the same traffic laws as cars. They must stay to the right of the road; they are strictly prohibited from riding on the sidewalk in Harvard and Central Square; and they must always yield to pedestrians...
...York. Their houses, however, may be old and in need of repair. One three-story row house in Brooklyn, N.Y., was bought for $25,000 in 1968 by Warren Singleton, a safety officer at a public school, and his wife Minnie, a health-care assistant. They hoped it would yield enough rental income to support their retirement. After bad tenants just about wrecked the two top floors, Minnie responded to an advertising brochure and phoned a company that sent over a white salesman who called himself Tony. He got the couple to sign a work sheet calling for repairs that...
...desirable when the cap-gains rate falls because dividends get taxed as ordinary income--a higher rate for most investors. Yet big stocks have been rising fastest all year, and that could persist. Why? Big stocks, as defined by the S&P 500, now have a measly 1.6% dividend yield, vs. 6% in the early '80s. In short, they're also being managed for growth instead of income. Of course, the market reacts to many things in the economy, not just tax changes. So nothing is certain, except that the old tools just don't work the way they used...
Finding anything on the Web usually involves a too-perplexing acrostic of slashes, periods and ampersands. But a small slip of the finger, even when browsing toward a simple search engine, can yield some real surprises. Below, the adult results of some common typos...
...amount that prices had risen over the life of the investment. Treasury officials contend they would be forced to erect a whole new bureaucratic apparatus of agents, forms and experts to police the change. The changes could tempt investors to divert money into unproductive investments that nonetheless yield lightly taxed capital gains, like the half-empty office buildings that sprouted before the 1986 reform...