Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Penn seeks to attract as large an applicant pool as possible so as to admit as small a percentage of it as possible to fill its available places (a low "admit rate," considered an index of exclusivity). But it hopes most of those admitted will actually enroll (a high "yield," considered a mark of quality). Harvard, the gold standard, last year admitted only 11% of applicants for this year's class; three-quarters of them decided to enroll. Penn's admit rate my freshman year was more than 50%, a figure Penn officials recall with about as much nostalgia...
...surplus of revenue over expenses totaling $182.8 million, which is more than its undergraduates paid in tuition. But its annual report for the same period, compiled under a different set of accounting rules, shows a surplus of $63.4 million--which then, through the miracle of university accounting, disappears to yield a kind of deficit...
...conventional measures of Wall Street, the market seems ripe for a setback. Not only are stocks heavily overpriced in relation to corporate earnings--the P/E ratio is now about 19--but the average dividend yield, which measures dividends as a percentage of prices, has fallen to an all-time low of less than 2%. Both gauges suggest the type of heedless buying that often precedes a bust. The public's hunger for shares has led Austin Grill, a chain of Tex-Mex eateries in the Washington area, to offer diners a helping of its new public offering along with their...
Still, there's no rule against hedging your risks. Jack Freedman, a Los Angeles film producer, favors stocks that yield sizable dividends, even if that means missing more glamorous performers. "I'm totally diversified, and I sleep very well at night," Freedman says. Such investors wisely run neither to nor from the bull market, but have learned to ride its up and downs. Alan Sunkel, a glassware entrepreneur in Kansas City, Missouri, recently shifted 10% of his $250,000 portfolio from stocks to money-market funds, lowering his equity holdings to 65%. "I'm worried about the market pulling back...
...Switzerland's Bloch reminds, there is "no Ali Baba cave under the Swiss National Bank, filled with gold and jewels." The dormant accounts will probably yield little cash, and how will anyone know how much of the $68 million in Nazi gold the Allies have left was taken from Jews rather than from national treasuries? Whatever money is eventually deemed to belong to the Jews will never be more than a tiny fraction of what was taken so viciously from them. Something akin to the truth may well be all that is left to solace them...