Not only the absolute discretion as to dividends given by § 24, but the similar discretion given by the same section as to the proportion of profits to be retained, confirms the grammatical construction of § 23.
Mr. Gilani, meanwhile, is positioning himself as a martyr to a hawkish court — a strategy that may already be paying dividends, given that his party defeated a candidate from Mr. Sharif's party in a by-election on Thursday.
A far-eastern investor is happy to put up the cash for properties that might not be completed for a couple of years, in the confident expectation that the investment will deliver huge and secure dividends, given London house-price inflation.
But analysts believe the risks involved in stepping into a legal minefield to help make up lost ground, notably in the fast-growing smartphone market, could pay dividends given the huge stock of patents Nokia has built up as a founding father of the handset industry.
Further investigation of the New World clade should pay rich dividends, given its extraordinary diversity of growth forms and geographic distributions, and what appear to be independent origins of the woody habit in the Caribbean (for example, L. portorescensis, L. vivaldii), temperate Chile (for example, L. polyphylla), and the montane Neotropics (for example, Burmeistera, Centropogon).
Online database management and marketing concern Traffix recently instituted an 8-cent quarterly dividend, giving it a yield of close to 5%.
These innovations will boot up the company's earnings per share (EPS), free cash flow (FCF) and its dividend, giving the share price a nice lift as they do.
At home, the patriarchal dividend gave husbands the right to decide where the family would live and to make unilateral financial decisions.
Though he would not say how much he is paying Ms. Lohan, he does expect a higher dividend, given the inevitable attention her involvement will generate.
Pfizer halved its 32-cent dividend last year to help pay for Wyeth, angering investors who count on the dividend given that Pfizer stock has languished at $20 a share or less for two years.
