Bad acquisitions, which are associated with negative stock market performance, result in dividend cuts, or even omitted dividends, five years after the acquisition.
"It's like I was investing my money to collect the dividends four years down the line," he said.
The introduction of Robert Koren from the City bench almost paid dividends seven minutes from full-time when he struck the crossbar from 20 yards out with Young beaten.
If anyone needed a reminder on Monday that sometimes loyalty actually pays dividends, one came in the form of Jim Boeheim's winning his 900th game as Syracuse's basketball coach.
Atlanta's faith in its core has paid massive dividends: Four starters were selected to the All-Star team and the fifth, DeMarre Carroll has been a breakout performer in the playoffs after the best regular season of his career.
The company has raised dividends four times since going public.
Angry that the company doesn't pay dividends, one of Crowley's aunts, who has since died, and her children, sold their shares to outsiders.
Since then, it has raised its dividend three times, to 60 cents a share.
And New York would reap a nice little dividend: two hundred million dollars or so, which would come in handy, in these lean budgetary times.
