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...seems hard to believe that you work in an improvisatory way since you successfully introduce themes and motifs at the beginning that payoff five years down the road...
...swing is so efficient that Woods can hit the ball as far as before--when he needs to. But one goal of the makeover was to help him control the ball better, even when he dialed down the power. That payoff didn't come quickly...
Combining Vivendi (1999 revenues: $41.8 billion) and Seagram ($12.3 billion) would bring a fat payoff for Edgar Bronfman Jr. and the entire Bronfman family, which owns nearly 25% of Seagram. Bronfman has had to endure endless Hollywood brickbats since his father tapped him for the top job in 1994. Outsiders ridiculed the Bronfman scion, who writes pop songs under the pseudonym Junior Miles, as a star-struck dilettante when he jettisoned Seagram's lucrative 24.2% stake in DuPont and used the proceeds to buy Universal. It didn't help that DuPont stock promptly doubled, as Seagram's own shares sparkled...
Featuring the highest hype-to-payoff ratio in sports, the 126th Run for the Roses will pack all its punch into two glorious minutes at Churchill Downs, cloaked by the affecting melodrama of a daytime soap, with a cast of characters to match. Here's a thumbnail sketch of this year's edition...
...Pinning a corsage on a barely constrained chest constitutes the first hurdle of the night. Proposition: primrose placement may seem a pleasing preface to the promenade, presuming the preeminent payoff does not involve a prurient priapism...