The initial after-tax return is about $22 a year ($31 less the 28 percent tax).

They may also seek a lower rate of initial return than commercial backers.

"If the initial returns from the market look like being shaky to negative, I'd think there would be a case for the Fed to move."

They are the initial returns received to a scoping exercise on workforce management information.

One concern is that growers need to invest money for no initial return, as crops tend to come in the third or fourth year.

Unfortunately, the initial returns of the $4.5 million Water Fund have been slightly soggy.

Some companies fix the initial return - current rates range from 7 to 8 1/2 percent - for a given duration, usually one to three years.

If he hadn't caught the initial return, they would already be past him.

Indeed, when his children heard the initial returns, they were so certain he'd lost that they traveled to the family farm to console him.

In the early 1990's Nonda made an initial return to darker colors.