Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after tomorrow. The teachers' unions, for example, contributed about $5 million last year to the Democratic cause. If Clinton is serious, he will need to persuade his allies that opposing reform is not in the nation's interests and to back off. If he is really serious, he may yield to Republican demands that labor unions, which spent $35 million in the last campaign, not be allowed to use mandatory union dues for political purposes...
...draw Social Security. And although capital-starved companies are salivating at the prospect of getting hold of at least some portion of the massive Social Security fund, which currently has a $60 billion surplus, some analysts feel investing in the stock market is too risky and that the lower yield of government Treasury bonds is more than offset by their greater stability. But all agree that something must be done, and soon: while the fund is currently operating at a surplus, the retirement of millions of Baby Boomers will exhaust it by the year 2029 if no changes are made...
Fitzsimmons expects the yield from this group of early admissions to be between 85 and 90 percent...
...matter how you twist it, there is no denying the fact that the referendum regarding the Undergraduate Council budget will affect the ability of both the Student Affairs and the Campus Life committees of the council to do their jobs of serving students. The proposed referendum will yield the following break down of the council budget (which is composed of each student's $20 student activities termbill fee, usually around...
...that scare you, though. Much has changed, which is why the yield sank to last week's low of 1.99% without disrupting the bull market. Today companies hold back more of what they earn, opting not to increase dividends but to reinvest in operations or buy stock on the open market. This year, for example, blue-chip companies will report record high earnings but pay out a record low portion of those earnings as dividends (37%, vs. a post-World War II average of 52%).That's O.K., so long as reinvesting and buying back shares have their intended effect...