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...payoff has come quickly. After the longest dry spell in NBA play-off history, the Mavs are in the championship running for the second year in a row. The team's revenue is a closely guarded secret, but Cuban and his lieutenants claim that it has doubled in two years, and the Mavs have sold out 30 straight home games...
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...Shlomo Pinsky is an extremely pious, temperate, Orthodox Jew whose only worldly desire is to win the lottery. Every day he prays to God for help. After many years of prayer but no lottery payoff, Shlomo becomes disillusioned. He asks, “God, why have you forsaken me? I have always followed your laws, I’ve always been a pious man, but you haven’t helped me with the only thing that I’ve asked...
...happens every ten years with a new census count, is always a messy battle for Democrats and Republicans. Both parties maneuver intensely in the state legislatures and the governor's mansions and the courts to get the new lines drawn in ways that help their candidates. The reason? The payoff for congressional boundaries that help one party over the other can be tremendous. A congressional incumbent can enjoy ten years of freedom from challengers because his district is packed with voters from his party...
...admit, the armed forces might get a youngster more inclined to enlist as a result of Junior ROTC. But society got a far greater payoff," Powell later wrote in his 1995 autobiography, My American Journey. "Inner-city kids, many from broken homes, found stability and role models in Junior ROTC. They got a taste of discipline, the work ethic, and they experienced pride of membership in something healthier than a gang...