Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like negotiations, to corrupt everyone in its grasp, to stifle dissenting opinions or information not based on prior, biased, CIA assessments. Stockwell's intimate knowledge of the Angolan operations fills in all these points with layer after layer of scummy stories. To take one minor instance, the last U.S. payoff to the anti-MPLA forces, over a million dollars, was pocketed by Mobutu of Zaire. Stockwell further notes just how shaky Mobutu's regime is, his reliance on American aid and on French and Belgian and Morroccan troops to put down rebellions. Stockwell tells the story of the Lear...
...Expansion of no-fault laws, already used by 16 states in automobile accident claims, to other negligence areas. In many cases, the main goal of a fast, equitable payoff to an injured claimant is totally obliterated by costly, delay-ridden personal-injury lawsuits...
...them by other lawyers. The ten-point man often manages a settlement simply by bribing an insurance-claim adjuster. He gets his nickname because, for this service, he is usually paid 10% of the total settlement, keeping half and giving the other half to the claim adjuster as a payoff...
...only within a narrowly prescribed set of rules. It neatly removes most ambiguities and most inequities and leaves you standing on a simple, lined court armed only with your tools of competition. In its simplicity, it gives a very concrete appraisal of your progress. It promises a simple payoff--if you work hard, you will improve; if you don't you will not. Life rarely is quite this simple...
...Donald Seawell, 65, chairman of the center and also president and chairman of the Denver Post, the opening was the first payoff on a huge investment-if not a gamble. Says Seawell, 'The Rocky Mountain states have always been have-nots as far as culture is concerned. Our planners say that Denver itself will double its population, to more than 3 million, in 20 years. They also say that if we tried to build this complex 20 years from now, the cost would be about $1 billion. It will take time, but we are looking for excellence in everything...