Word: payoff
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Buehrens predicted that increasing payoff from the Medical School’s endowment—which was set at unusually low rates of 4 percent this year and 2 percent last year—would help the school get out of its hole...
...With payoff from the endowment looking better now, things should begin to turn around,” he said...
...female. I’ve done all that, and I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world. But after all the cat fights, production problems and mediocre copy that I’ve churned out, I know that those small roles add up to one big payoff: an irreplaceable experience during college, leaving me with ties to people and a place that will never dissolve...
...about on the beach this summer: steam shovels or a lusty Bordeaux?) Mayle's hero is Max Skinner, a dealmaker in his late 30s toiling at a hateful London investment house. When the reptile who runs the place steals away a big deal just before Max can enjoy the payoff, he quits...
...supermarkets, electronics outlets and telephone companies. Business in Asia is a family affair, and the most accurate picture of an Asian economy remains a diagram of an extended family tree connecting clans that make things to those that finance them, with dotted lines sometimes leading to the government. The payoff for decades of commercial consanguinity has varied from nation to nation. For more than 30 years the impoverished Indonesian archipelago was run as a mom-and-pop operation by the ruling Suharto family. In contrast, South Korea's economic miracle was engineered by some 30 ambitious conglomerates called chaebol, almost...