Word: paydays
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...role model for Spain's youth and called for a ban on stock options. The Aznar government pleaded with Villalonga to renounce the profits on his options, but he refused. In the end, Aznar won handily; however, the Spanish government had long since responded to the looming Villalonga payday by doubling the tax on share-option gains...
...tycoon Richard Li paid $27 million for 25% of SilkRoute, whose main asset is 38% of AMO. No matter that neither company has made a profit. Few Net companies do, at least yet. But Cheah, 34, has no intention of selling out. "I'm waiting for a much bigger payday," he says...
...netted him $115 million, Jain, 32, operated a website known as IndiaWorld, which posted local news and sports scores, primarily for Indians living overseas. His 20 staff members were squeezed into a 970-sq-ft. warren in downtown Bombay. Profits were minimal. But last fall Jain hit a cosmic payday when he sold his portal company, IndiaWorld Communications, to Satyam Infoway, an Indian Internet service provider listed on NASDAQ. The $115 million deal--one of the biggest Internet transactions involving two Asian companies--gave Jain instant celebrity, a whopping bank account and a desire to leave the Internet rat race...
Used-up pugs Vince (Woody Harrelson) and Caesar (Antonio Banderas) are last-minute replacements on the undercard for a Las Vegas championship fight. They're best buddies, so, good payday or not, beating up on each other is a bummer. Still, Grace (Lolita Davidovich), whom they both love, is driving them from L.A. She's flaky fun, but the movie never achieves more than feckless amiability. Shelton (Bull Durham) has done better with athletic lowlifes and doubtless will again...