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...they are often driven to achieve short-term results. There is too much pressure for risk-free, sure and often modest success. Unless managers know?and the public understands?that they must be free to fail in some ventures or wait for the longer-term payoff, they will never take the daring step...
...Department of Education, after all, had only squeeked by the House by 14 votes and in the opinion of many, as one Congressman bluntly put it, Carter's support for it represented "a political payoff in every sense of the word." Then candidate Carter had picked up the first-ever endorsement of a presidential candidate from the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's most influential lobby for primary education, in return for his promise to build the department. Those who represented post-secondary education interests feared that, given the NEA's vital role in establishing the department...
...encourage this improvement the university last month introduced a rather startling new wrinkle: dollar bonuses for academic excellence. Astonished scholars with high averages got "good grade payoff" checks ranging from $100 (for one term with a 3.8 average) to $1,000 (three years with a perfect 4.0). So much for fiscal '79-80. Alas, the university has just approved a $500 tuition hike for '80-81. Students are protesting again, too, some of them with misspelled posters...
...Mardi Gras-of the Mafia's nationwide controlling commission. It would have been the most important meeting of the mob bosses since their celebrated conclave in Apalachin, N.Y., in 1957. The Chicago and New Orleans families were to have pinned down just how to cut the $2 million payoff for switching the Teamster insurance. Another topic was to have been how to recover Mafia dominance of the narcotics traffic. The FBI had hoped that much of the discussion would have been picked up by FBI microphones planted around the hangouts of Marcello, who was to have been host...
...centered in Chicago, led agents to question whether Dorfman might have enticed Cannon into shaping a bill deregulating the trucking industry into a form more acceptable to the Teamsters. As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Cannon was a key figure in any such legislation. Cannon's suspected payoff was to get Dorfman's help in purchasing valuable land owned by the Teamster pension fund in Las Vegas, where Cannon also has a home. But the deal was never consummated...