Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday night, after 6½ hours of talks in Jerusalem with Begin and senior members of his cabinet, the payoff on Carter's gamble was still in doubt. "A treaty is within our grasp," the President had told Egypt's parliament Saturday. Sadat agreed, saying that "we have had a very fruitful talk." But both leaders cautioned that some issues remained unresolved as Carter headed for Israel. Arriving there just as the Jewish Sabbath was ending, he was greeted at Ben-Gurion Airport by President Itzhak Navon and Premier Begin, who gave him a warm embrace. Said Carter: "I have good...
Next, Carter and Teng reached quick agreement on five accords that had largely been worked out ahead of time by aides. Signed the following day, the pacts only modestly advanced relations between the two countries, but they served as tokens of the payoff that normalization is supposed to bring. The U.S. agreed to let Peking open consulates in Houston and San Francisco in exchange for American consulates in Canton and Shanghai. The U.S. also promised to sell China on credit a communications satellite system that will cost about $500 million, and a 50-billion electron-volt accelerator, used in nuclear...
...hard-pressed state clinics, where services are supposedly gratis. But bribery always has its risks. A physician informed a patient that he would require several hundred packs of Kents to undertake a complicated course of treatment. The patient worked hard to obtain the requisite cigarettes. When she turned the payoff over to the doctor, he in turn used the Kents to help buy a hard-to-get passport. He then departed the country, leaving his patient untreated-and smoking...
...down to 2.2%. Some reasons: the Government has cut its support of R. and D. programs sharply with the end of the Viet Nam War and the de-emphasis of the space program; private universities have been in a financial squeeze; industry in an inflationary era has judged the payoff from R. and D. spending to be too long term and uncertain. The toll on productivity is hard to calculate, since it would have to be measured in inventions not made and labor-saving processes not developed, but it surely has been high...
...South. One pair of hapless smugglers this month made it all the way into the U.S. only to land in a Florida pasture being used by local politicians for a turkey shoot. The pilot was promptly arrested. But for those who make it in safely, and most do, the payoff is high. A pilot can pocket $50,000 for one trip. Ten tons of marijuana, if landed safely, immediately becomes worth $6 million wholesale, making the trip profitable even if the old plane must be abandoned on its makeshift runway in the woods...