61.   The new offer allows shareholders to be paid sooner, as early as February if they approve the transaction next month.

62.   The revised CSX offer allows Conrail shareholders to be paid sooner, as early as February if they approve the transaction next month.

63.   The report led to hopes that borrowing costs would fall, boosting company earnings and the size of dividends paid shareholders.

64.   The steep decline in borrowing costs could boost economic growth, company earnings and the size of dividends paid shareholders more rapidly than previously thought, analysts said.

65.   They also force company borrowing costs to rise, which can hurt earnings and the size of dividends paid shareholders.

66.   They also hurt company earnings and the size of dividends paid shareholders, making fixed-income securities more attractive than stocks for many investors.

67.   They also cut borrowing costs, which can boost company earnings and the size of dividends paid shareholders.

68.   Westinghouse must have call on that money during the interim, even though it cannot pay CBS shareholders until the deal was done.

69.   Whitbread said it will offer a loan note alternative, which pays shareholders a one-pound loan note in exchange for each pound waived in cash.

70.   You would have to pay most shareholders to attend an annual meeting.