Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take in winnings, which is above the 50% at some gambling casinos but about the same as payouts at Nevada hotels. After takeoff, 148 of the 330 passengers aboard requested time at the slots and attempted to line up the familiar combinations of bars and cherries. The jackpot payoff of $100 was signaled by three pictures of S.A.'s logo, a stylized bird. Said Toronto Psychiatrist Jon Ennis, a passenger on the flight: "Little old ladies trying to get to the lavatories had to push through the crowd around the casino." Alas, no one was able...
...payoff and the perils of a strong currency
...investors who typically will give $1 million or more to often untried businessmen to form companies in microelectronics, genetic engineering, robotics or other industries. The field is highly risky; an estimated half of all such initial investments are eventually written off as tax losses. But for winners the payoff can be huge: a $1 million investment might return $100 million...
...billion from the fiscal 1982 Energy Department budget, scaled back conservation and solar research programs, and sharply curtailed investment in synthetic-fuel projects. Reagan Administration officials admit that under such a free market energy program, fuel prices will rise until they reach world levels. But they maintain that the payoff will be more conservation of precious fuel, higher domestic energy production, and ultimately less dependence upon Middle East oil suppliers...
...food and energy." Yet both Wall Street and the public are taking a longer-term view of the potential profits from recombinant DNA research. Says Richard B. Emmitt, vice president of research for F. Eberstadt of New York: "Most people have been too optimistic about the size and commercial payoff of these companies...