Word: payoff
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...payoff, the survey found, is significant. Those checkbook balancers, for example, have more savings, less credit-card debt and fewer financial worries than people who choose to rely on just their ATM receipts for confirmation of what's in their accounts...
...Peirce stood next to a conveyor belt at its Helsinki gateway, watching computerized RFID scanners identify packages inside passing cargo containers at the rate of 300 items per second. "This is amazing technology when you see it working, and it's all fine-tuned," says Peirce. For customers, the payoff is later posting times and earlier deliveries, says the company's CIO, Steve Bandrowczak. "RFID clearly can help customers by reducing inventory cycles, reducing lead times...
...which has hired a lethal samurai (Tadanobu Asano) to wipe out its enemies. Meanwhile, a geisha assassin and her brother, a female impersonator, seek revenge on the criminals who slaughtered their family. Zatoichi ends up in the middle. This is a film designed to get to the payoff as fast as possible, and that payoff is bloodier than a hematology convention. Hyperviolence is not new to the Zatoichi oeuvre, but Kitano does Katsu one, two or 11 better. To Kitano, Zatoichi is "about a guy who comes into town and cuts down everybody in sight and then leaves." That...
Dangling from cliffs in casts, the live-fast, die-old set defies stereotypes about staid seniors. Though climbers must be extraordinarily cautious, the payoff is hard bodies and quick minds. That's why Wignall is frantic to escape his bedroom and climb; why Bass will give Everest another go; why he'll face competition from Miura, who will also return. "I wanted to encourage the elders in the world that if man keeps hopes and a dream, believes in the dream and works toward the dream, the heart and soul of man will remain young," Miura says...
...payoff for the effort...