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Ponomaryov, the fired prosecutor, says those who use the killing to demonstrate that crime is out of hand are aiming for a political payoff. "Some dishonest leaders use it to their advantage," he says, "claiming the reforms are going nowhere because of crime." He argues that compared with the rest of the world, "the situation in Russia has not reached levels that warrant extraordinary measures...
...high as $100 billion if the antismoking forces prevail. "It's no longer David vs. Goliath," says John Banzhaf, executive director of the antismoking group Action on Smoking and Health. "The big law firms are willing to put up lots of money because they think there's a big payoff...
Twenty years ago, another Universal movie with a watery setting went 100% over budget and stoked pessimistic press reports. How, folks wondered, could Jaws ever make money? The pain and payoff of Jaws surely prompted Sheinberg, who had supervised it, to meet with Waterworld's producers long before the shooting began and ask, "My God, do you guys know what you're getting into?" Gordon's reply: "We think we have an idea of what we're getting into. And we're sure it'll be worse than what we think...
...have known since the Night of the White Bronco that the opening of the O.J. Simpson trial would do more to suck up leisure time than all the debates over the balanced-budget amendment and observations about the odd January weather combined, the high courtroom drama was the big payoff. But those who had cynically decided in advance that the so-called trial of the century would be nothing more than an interminable media fest were guilty of, to use Johnnie Cochran's new favorite phrase, ``a rush to judgment...
...senior Doug Anderson, it's the big payoff...