Word: payoff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...calculations of China's potential role in the world, however, rest on two critical assumptions: that Deng's reforms will be continued and broadened, and that they will yield the promised payoff in a relatively short period. Unhappily, neither is at all certain...
...preceding 26 years. Variety has increased along with quantity; besides rice and wheat, the Chinese are growing and eating more poultry and pork (China has the world's largest pig population, though many are scrawny beasts quite unlike the corn-fattened hogs of Iowa or Nebraska). The biggest payoff of all: Vaclav Smil, a Canadian geographer, calculates that in China, "today's diets appear to supply, on the average, enough energy and protein for normal growth and healthy life." In a country that has been racked by periodic famines throughout four millenniums of recorded history, the average citizen has, finally...
...surprising that a big urban practice such as Bosch's would get wired. Most health care in the U.S., however, is delivered by small practices with fewer than 10 doctors, and these physicians don't yet see any payoff. That's because so far there is none. The cost is high, about $10,000 to $12,000 per doctor, and most of the benefits accrue to other players in the system, such as hospitals, employers and insurers. Doctors in small practices, many experts believe, won't link up unless their patients demand it. At least that's the assumption behind...
INFLATION The Little Payoff...
...problems publicly and resolve them through collaboration, whereas Chinese managers--accustomed to hierarchical reporting structures--prefer to handle conflict privately, so that no one loses face. Crimson's companies tap ethnic-Chinese executives trained in international business practices to manage the work forces there. Along with financial payoffs, Ho gets the satisfaction of carrying on his father's legacy. "He always wanted to link the U.S. and China in a positive way, and I'm helping to make that happen," he says. That kind of payoff is priceless. --By Sonja Steptoe/ Palo Alto