Changing the format paid immediate dividends as readership grew quickly.

The Orbital begins its response, declaring an immediate 5-percent dividend.

He should pay immediate dividends, at least on special teams.

A corporation wants immediate dividends; not, uh, pie in the sky a century from now.

Whatever Singh was doing did not pay immediate dividends.

But there were no immediate dividends in the standings.

And after transactions last summer costing more than $151 million were supposed to pay immediate dividends, well, that would not look good.

Still, that nine-player deal with Dallas last season has seemed to pay immediate dividends.

The new stars paid almost immediate dividends in 1992-93.

A move to Eastern Province in 1946-47 brought immediate dividends.