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Darman sprinkled his own little peace dividend about politically popular domestic programs--as well as on a project dear to his own heart, the proposed manned landing on Mars.

El Paso, the pipeline company, dropped $1.80, or 22.5percentto to $6.20, after it said it would cut its dividend about 82percentt and sell nearly $3 billion in assets to conserve cash and shore up its finances.

Shareholders also agreed to a dividend of about $550 million to be paid in two installments.

It also plans to announce a $2 billion stock buyback and a roughly 30 percent increase in its dividend, to about 21 cents a share.

The new company would borrow money to pay a one-time dividend of about $1.75 billion to Time Warner, making the transaction resemble a sale.

Nortel is a more volatile, growth-oriented stock based on the communications equipment business that pays a relatively small dividend of about 12 cents a share.

The OECD also notes that there is a significant dividend of about 0.2 percentage points of GDP for countries acting collectively rather than going it alone.

And the stock has a dividend of about 3.8%.

The company plans to pay a quarterly cash dividend of about 13 cents per share beginning the first full quarter following completion of the IPO.

To be as good as stocks (on average), the benefit from living in a house has to pay an "occupancy dividend" of about seven percent.

The company said it expects to initiate a semiannual cash dividend of about 10 cents a share in the first quarter of its next fiscal year, which begins June 29.