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Note 9 - Dividends | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
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Dividends [Text Block] | 9. Dividends In 2010, we announced that our Board of Directors approved a regular cash dividend program to our stockholders, subject to approval each quarter. Quarterly cash dividends of $0.015 per share of common stock were declared in each of the first two quarters of 2017 along with dividends of $0.025 per share in each of 2017’s last two quarters, which totaled $4.4 million.

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