That compares with 59 S.& P. 500 companies that have trimmed or eliminated dividends over the same period, according to S.& P. Companies that have managed to increase their payouts in this tough economic climate may be a good target for a time-tested conservative investment strategy: buying shares of solid dividend-payers.
The vitreous specimens remain fully hydrated and are still liquid by physical definition, but share properties of solid matter as they are in fact in a very high viscosity state.
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Some investors want to buy shares of a solid company if its stock falls far enough.
And since plastic water bottles represent a small but growing share of Hong Kong's solid waste problem, her group is trying to encourage the construction of public dispensers to let people refill their own water bottles.
Financial shares and a pair of solid earnings reports paved the way for a rally into a busy afternoon.
Sun has a solid share of the market for server computers used in corporate data centers, but it too has been trying to expand in more profitable businesses.
National Metalwares, at about $30 million in revenue, is small, but Mr. Hill said it had traditionally commanded a solid share of the market for tubular steel components used in school furniture and engine-powered lawn products like mowers or weed trimmers.
Monaco has a solid share of the popular $100,000-to-$100,000-to-$100,000-to-$200,000 extelevisionsandllite television andoublele slide-outs, walls that expand to create living space when the vehicle is parked.
By the 1950s, America had entered an era that economists call the Great Compression, in which workers — through unions and Social Security, among other factors — captured a solid share of the economy's growth.
