Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Austrians did not have to wait long for their first payoff for playing host to the show. On the opening morning of competition, Native Son Franz Klammer, 22, flew down the downhill course, approaching 90 m.p.h. at one point, to win the gold medal. It was a rough, reckless run. Said Klammer, "I thought I was going to crash...
...treachery, servility and ingratitude." The Britannica went on to report that a "George Downing" became a proverbial expression in New England to denote a false man who betrayed his trust. Downing Street, where the Prime Minister lives, was named for this Harvard man in what Bailyn termed a payoff for his political betrayal of Richard Cromwell...
...Buchwald is depressing even when he's funny: "I put women on a pedestal, but fundamentally I was very hostile to them. I was trying to get even with my mother. Tying to get even with your dead mother is one of the futile drives. There's no payoff...
...carry through such developments. Says Gordon Bloom, a senior lecturer at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and a leading food expert: "Because the industry operates on such a low profit margin, it won't spend two cents for technological innovation unless you can prove the payoff." Until it does, however, food can only continue gobbling more and more of the American family's budget...
...Sweden, the government offers more than 300 courses to retrain the jobless, pays the expenses of an unemployed Swede who travels to look for work, and underwrites his moving bills once he finds a job. The cost is high: more than 5% of the Swedish budget. But the payoff is impressive: Swedish unemployment has consistently been well below that...