Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investigating Walsh's use of two trust funds, "Banker Vics" and "Robin Hood." Walsh allegedly split the $500,000 in profits between the twotrusts and funneled the monies to payoff the bankofficials who funded his 19 real estate ventures...
...started singing in local pubs, but quit three years later to begin recording with two Rochdale musicians. Her payoff came in 1989 when her debut album, Affection, scored two No. 1 hits on the black charts in America. Her newest disk, Real Love, is her finest yet; the breathy come-ons of Time to Make You Mine are arrestingly seductive, and in Change she shows off the glorious arc of her upper register...
Initially, U.S. officials were uncertain what to make of these disclosures. Washington finally decided that Hanoi -- or at least some officials there -- was sending a signal that it finally wanted to meet Washington's principal precondition for re-establishing diplomatic relations: a full accounting of the missing. The payoff would be genuine progress toward normal ties and an end to the 17-year trade embargo, possibly before the end of the year...
What happens when a worker blames worries about his salary for a faltering job performance? In baseball, he wins a record payoff. Admittedly distracted by negotiations for a new contract, shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. is hitting more than 70 points below his 1991 average of .323. Still, he is a fan idol whom the Baltimore Orioles dared not let go. Last week they signed Ripken to play five more years for an average $6.1 million per. The total guaranteed value of $30.5 million tops the four-year, $28 million deal the Chicago Cubs gave second baseman Ryne Sandberg...
...Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson). Dershowitz contended that Allen's custody suit was "concocted" to obscure the issue of child molestation. He denied Allen's charge that Farrow, who took no alimony in her divorces from Frank Sinatra and composer-conductor Andre Previn, was demanding $7 million as a payoff to retract the child-abuse accusation. "Baloney," said Dershowitz; Farrow only "wants her family back. She wants to protect her children from Woody. She does not want him to have unrestricted visitation. Protection, not money, has been her main concern...