Moreover the stocks listed below have not missed a quarterly payment in the past decade.

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Meridian has been paying dividends since 1992, never missing a quarterly payment and never reducing the amount.

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It also increases the cost of complying with the law as taxpayers seeking to avoid the penalty reach out to their tax advisors to compute the amount of each quarterly payment.

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It said many could struggle to meet their quarterly rent payment, due on Christmas Day.

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After seeing good quarterly results with its online payment business through PayPal, eBay is focusing on growing its global fashion business.

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So, while we absolutely maintain a mandate of providing income to our shareholders, we wanted there to be a little less of an emphasis on an idea that there would be a fixed income payment on a quarterly basis.

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While the company is spending some of its cash on a special payout and speeding up its annual dividend payment, it still expects to hike quarterly payouts by a nickel per share, or 20%, in 2013.

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By and large, businesses welcomed this tidying up, even though they will pay more tax during a four-year transition to a new system of payment, under which big firms will pay tax quarterly on a current-year basis, rather than in arrears as now.

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