The techniques used by Bloomberg to estimate changes in dividend payments were 85% successful in identifying companies that will soon initiate or raise their dividend in 2009 with a recent success in calling the initiation of a dividend by Starbucks.

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The company did make some compensation changes and halved the dividend--the first cut in the payout since 1992--but rejected the other York proposals.

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