Sentence examples for dividend effective from inspiring English sources

AMERICAN GREETINGS CORP., Cleveland, the maker of greeting cards and party goods, said its board had agreed to suspend paying the quarterly dividend, effective immediately.

The company announced a 2-for-1 stock split, and said it would raise its modest quarterly dividend by 33percentt, effective July 31.

The Dundee firm is paying out its 48th consecutive annual increase in dividends, with an effective yield on investment of 2.3%.

The dividend cut will be effective with its first quarterly payment for 2006.

PXE International has had a trebly effective educative dividend: patient participants learn about PXE and how to deal with it, scientific knowledge about PXE has expanded through the organization's activities, and participants - both scientists and advocates - have learned how to engage each other, to participate together, more effectively.

There is also evidence that owner-managers shift corporate profits between income and dividends to lower their effective tax rate.

The Kings inserted Aaron Brooks and John Salmons into the starting lineup for Isaiah Thomas and James Johnson, and the move paid early dividends as Brooks was effective running the Kings' offense, staking the Kings to a 16-8 lead with a floater as his counterpart Williams did not take a shot for the first seven-plus minutes.

It would appear that a high dividend payout ratio is an effective way to reduce the length of that rope.

Foreigners are attracted chiefly by Malta's tax system, which allows income tax on dividends to be offset against corporate tax, reducing the effective tax rate on dividends from 35% to 5%.

The carbon tax-and-dividend is simpler and more effective than cap-and-trade.

The effective rate on dividends, Mr. Dubay maintained, "would stand at more than 63 percent if President Obama's misguided policy became law.