The resident population has actually increased by a quarter in the past five years.

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Entergy has earned enough money to cover its dividend payments every quarter for the past five years.

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Although shareholders could not really count on the payouts, they have collected a nice 6 cent to 12 cent dividend per share in each quarter of the past five years.

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Partly thanks to the proliferation of independent radio stations, combined with the extra time spent sitting in traffic jams, radio listenership has risen by a quarter in the past five years.

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Many REITs beat estimates and the fourth quarter results were among the strongest of the past five years, and in fact produced the most number of companies outperforming.

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Specifically, the metros were ranked by their appreciation over the past five years, through the first quarter of this year.

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In the past five years the airlines have shed a quarter of their capacity and nearly 40% of their workers, some 169, 000 in all.

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The shortfall is projected to climb past a quarter of a million teachers in the next five years -- and that gap is most pronounced in predominately poor and minority schools.

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Among them, five have added to their positions during the past quarter.

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