Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every combination, the gamble may have worked, as only one winning ticket was issued. The Australians are said to have claimed victory, but no one has officially come forward to collect yet. The winner is given 180 days from the drawing to trade in the lucky chit for a payoff of $1.2 million a year over the next 20 years. Meanwhile, Virginia officials are considering rewriting the lottery rules to prevent well-heeled players from cornering the market -- and scaring off other customers -- in the future...
...struck gold in the Black Hills!" crowed Bob Kerrey after winning last week's South Dakota primary. The political payoff was slight: the Nebraska Democrat bagged only seven delegates. More important, his victory, with an impressive 40% of the vote, attracted contributions to his impoverished organization. But the money was not enough to allow Kerrey to take to other states the aggressive TV campaign he mounted in South Dakota. For three precious days, he was an unwilling pacifist in a political air war marked by sharply rising bitterness and intensity. The number of negative ads began to increase in proportion...
...winners, the tyranny of time was partly reversed, and the payoff was a moment that seemed to last forever. "It's wonderful that such an investment has a return all in one day," said Georg Hackl, a silver medalist in 1988 claiming his gold in the luge. But even for champions, there are a hundred clocks working simultaneously, not all of them benign. Bonnie Blair, after winning a gold, coolly outlined the four-year plan that took her from the Calgary Games to Albertville and how "I took each year a little differently." Not in the plan, however...
...Payoff For The Pig Bowl...
...PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. Bumbling burglars, wiseacre kids, nasty adults, guilty secrets: this spook sonata sounds like a forced merger of Home Alone and Arsenic and Old Lace. The movie is all setup and little payoff, but writer-director Wes Craven (the first Nightmare on Elm Street) and a good cast make it fun. Sometimes the best part of a horror movie is waiting to be scared...