Corporations react violently to short-range stimuli, e.g., quarterly and annual dividend reports.

The plan called for divestiture by Du Pont of its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors stock by equal annual distributions to its stockholders, as a dividend, over a period of ten years.

The measure, for federal income tax purposes, of the dividend to individual stockholders would be the fair market value of the shares at the time of each annual distribution.

The U. S. Government receives all of the system's annual profits, after a statutory dividend of 6 % on member banks ' capital investment is paid, and an account surplus is maintained.

Interim dividends are dividend payments made before a company's annual general meeting ( AGM ) and final financial statements.

It remained an important trading concern and paid an 18 % annual dividend for almost 200 years.

The long-term average annual profit in the ' Expansion Age ' ( 1680 – 1730 ) was 2. 0 million guilders, of which three-quarters was distributed as dividend and one-quarter reinvested.

( assumes 2 % annual dividend )

The exchanges also pledged to maintain the dividend at least as high as the current TMX annual payout, which is C $ 1. 60 a share.

Supporters of the law, however, believed that the requirement that the private capital be directly invested in the new joint ventures significantly reduced the room for corruption and would bring about the development of these " strategic " resources in the absence of any possibility of Bolivia alone funding their development, that the fiscal obligations of the new companies would greatly increase the funds available for human and social, as well as infrastructure development, and that the dividend payouts for the Bolivian people went to create a universal, annual old-age benefit, the BONOSOL, which though small would have an immense impact on the rural elderly, the most marginalized sector of Bolivia's indigenous population

Dominion Tar withheld its annual dividend on common stock from 1932 to 1937.

The bequest is to be used as a capital fund to generate an annual interest dividend of around £ 60, 000 for community projects.

The corporation still holds the record for the longest continuous dividend history: it paid out annual dividends to shareholders for more than 100 years in a row.

In exchange, Talbot paid the shah an annual sum of £ 15, 000 in addition to a quarter of the yearly profits after the payment of all expenses and a dividend of 5 percent on the capital.

The dividend yield or the dividend-price ratio of a share is the company's total annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization, or the dividend per share, divided by the price per share.

The yield is the ratio of the annual dividend to the current market price, which will vary.

The dividend yield of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is obtained from the annual dividends of all 30 companies in the average divided by their cumulative stock price, has also been considered to be an important indicator of the strength of the U. S. stock market.

* Tel-Div 20 – Index of the 20 issues listed on the TA-100 Index with the highest annual dividend yield.

Investors who purchased these stocks receive their regular dividend regardless of company performance ( assuming the company does well enough to make its annual dividend payments ).

The stock pays an annual dividend on June 1.

REI normally pays an annual dividend check to its members equal to 10 % of what they spent at REI on regular-priced merchandise in the prior year.

* Dividend: Fairfax annual dividend is $ 10 a share ( payable on Jan. 26, 2011 to shareholders of record on Jan. 19, 2011, reflecting good earnings and increased cash.

" The annual poll tax was only $ 1. 50.

Shortly before his marriage, for example, his future father-in-law Colonel Joseph May helped him find a job teaching at a school in Boston run by the Society of Free Enquirers, followers of Robert Owen, for a lucrative $ 1, 000 to $ 1, 200 annual salary.

Founded in 1920 by Crystal Eastman, Roger Baldwin and Walter Nelles, the ACLU has over 500, 000 members and has an annual budget over $ 100 million.

Antipsychotic drugs are now the top-selling class of pharmaceuticals in America, generating annual revenue of about $ 14. 6 billion.

They later established paint manufacturer Alba ( 1925 ), chemical and fertilizer maker Compañía Química, and textile maker Grafa ( 1932 ), among others ; by the late 1920s, the company's annual export receipts alone reached US $ 300 million.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

Tiffany & Co., for example, pays directors an annual retainer of $ 46, 500, an additional annual retainer of $ 2, 500 if the director is also a chairperson of a committee, a per-meeting-attended fee of $ 2, 000 for meetings attended in person, a $ 500 fee for each meeting attended via telephone, in addition to stock options and retirement benefits.

The Central African Republic ( CAR ) is classified as one of the world's least developed countries, with an estimated annual per capita income of $ 700 ( 2009 ).

Undergraduate tuition for the 2011 – 2012 school year was $ 36, 387 and total annual costs were estimated to be $ 54, 090.

For instance, Forbes ranked media mogul and talk show host, Oprah Winfrey as the top earner " Forbes magazine ’ s annual ranking of the most powerful celebrities ", with earnings of $ 290 million in the past year.

During the 1983 – 86 seasons, North Dakota buyers purchased an average of 7, 913 pelts annually, for an average annual combined return to takers of $ 255, 458.

It was projected to have $ 2. 5 billion in annual cost savings by mid-2004.

Tourism accounts for more than $ 1 billion in annual earnings.

They are also the wealthiest team in the NFL, generating almost $ 269 million in annual revenue.

In October 1979, Rosenthal's liability insurer settled with Day for about $ 6 million payable in 23 annual installments.

Students from families with a combined annual income of less than $ 75, 000 are not charged any tuition.

Under Jiang and Zhu's ten years of administration, the PRC's economic performance pulled an estimated 150 million peasants out of poverty and sustained an average annual gross domestic product growth rate of 11. 2 %.

According to a 2004 study, 150, 000 jobs and $ 13 billion in annual production depend on the river crossings connecting Detroit to Windsor.

Fish stocks also rose, with the annual catch being 100, 000 in 1994, to 150, 000 in 1995.

Sweden is less than half as large as the Canadian province of British Columbia, but the annual take of moose in Sweden — upward of 150, 000 — is twice that of the total moose harvest in North America.

Nepal would appear to have unusual potential given its average annual 150 cm.

Francia released them only after they agreed to pay an enormous collective indemnity of 150, 000 pesos ( about 75 percent of the annual state budget ), an amount so large that it broke their predominance in the Paraguayan economy.

An annual festival, the Lebowski Fest, began in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 2002 with 150 fans showing up, and has since expanded to several other cities.

Morris was left to foot the ongoing operating deficit of the publication, approximately £ 4 per week — this at a time when £ 150 per year was the average annual family income in the kingdom.

In his annual budget address in City Council Chambers on October 15, 2008, Daley proposed a 2009 budget totalling $ 5. 97 billion, including not filling 1, 350 vacancies on the 38, 000-strong city payroll and $ 150 million in new revenue from a then-obscure parking meter lease deal to help erase a $ 469 million budget shortfall.

The murder was claimed to have been committed by four of Ernest Augustus's courtiers, one of whom ( Don Nicolò Montalbano ) was paid the enormous sum of 150, 000 thalers, which was about one hundred times the annual salary of the highest paid minister.

In 1969, Embrey was one of approximately 150 people who attended the first organized Manzanar Pilgrimage ( see Manzanar Pilgrimage section, below ) and was one of the founders of the annual event.

Through the work of the International Institute of Socionics and other schools of Socionics, the issue 4 peer-reviewed journals and the annual International conferences on socionics, Socionics is taught in more then 150 universities in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries, as well as in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, either as a separate course, or, in view of the applicability of the various methods of Socionics Humanities, as part of educational courses on Sociology, Pedagogy, Social Psychology, Management and Psychology of Management, human resource management, Conflictology, social services and Tourism, Computer Science and Programming, Philosophy, Neurology, Journalism, Library Science, Social Work, Didactics and others, including Engineering disciplines.

A representative of Israel's Chamber of Commerce has estimated the cumulative economic damage caused by the crisis at 150 to 200 billion Shekels, or 35 to 45 billion US $ – against an annual GDP of 122 billion dollars in 2002.

Prices were high: in addition to purchasing a terminal there was an additional one-time $ 100 set-up fee, the annual fee was $ 150, and there was a $ 19. 00 / hr charge to connect to the service, and another $ 6. 00 / hr for " communications ".

Featured at the annual three-day event are more than 10 musical acts, numerous competitions for people of all ages, as well as more than 150 craft vendors and food venues, featuring the festival's signature barbecued chicken.

The British Government provided Cunard with an annual subsidy of £ 150, 000 plus a low interest loan of £ 2. 5 million (£ as of ), to pay for the construction of the two superliners, the Blue Riband winners Lusitania and Mauretania, capable of.

Special events are scheduled throughout the summer, such as the KaBoomFest fireworks on July 3, which attracted as many as 150, 000 spectators at its 51st annual event in 2010.

The department is a fully volunteer organization with an annual budget of $ 150, 000 per year.

In its 2010 annual report, Carlyle reported assets in excess of $ 150 billion under management diversified over 84 distinct funds.

At peak times there can be 150, 000 – 160, 000 non-winter sports visitors, combined with a further 50, 000 – 60, 000 annual sports visitors during the winter.

It has an annual turnover of £ 410 million, including £ 150 million for research.

Precipitation is low in the winter but in the higher parts very high in the summer, with annual averages reaching as high as 1, 150 mm ( 45 inches ) and over 300 mm ( 12 inches ) in July alone.

Except for the elevated area of Erigavo district where rainfall records indicate an annual average of up to 800 mm ( see " Cal Madow " topic ), rainfall generally does not exceed 150 mm in most of the region.

The region supports livestock production, rain-fed and gravity irrigated agriculture and fisheries, with an annual rainfall between 150 and 500 millimeters covering an area of approximately 60, 000 square kilometers.

Today, the U. S. produces between 80 % and 95 % of the world's pecans, with an annual crop of 150 – 200 thousand tons from more than 10 million trees.