1.   A small investment of time, energy and imagination in improving the environment of the dining hall could pay big dividends.

2.   Among stocks, only the railroads paid dividends on a regular basis.

3.   An expanding body of data suggests that this modest investment can pay big dividends.

4.   And for fourteen years, Nucor had paid a dividend to its stockholders, increasing the amount of the dividend each year.

5.   And the strategy appears to be paying dividends.

6.   At Marginal mines, small improvements could pay big dividends.

7.   Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends.

8.   Dividends are paid to the shareholders each year if adequate profits are made.

9.   Eighty-eight of them paid no dividend.