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...California Angels), whom the Boss publicly plotted against from the moment he signed the star rightfielder to a 10-year contract in 1980. If this sounds confusing, take comfort that the commissioner saw in Steinbrenner "a pattern of behavior that borders on the bizarre." But the Yankee owner's payoff to a gambler, with its echoes of Pete Rose's bookie season, gave Vincent the disciplinary leverage he needed...
Heartened and hopeful, the Heimdals dispatched the money to Ecuador. Last week the kidnapers sent word that they considered the $60,000 as a mere first installment on a $612,000 payoff. If the rest of the money is not delivered by an undisclosed due date, they said, Scott Heimdal would be killed. Said Roy Heimdal: "There's no way we could raise $612,000. That's impossible...
...system provides time for creativity in reacting to the news. Editors can preview new layouts, pictures or covers in minutes instead of hours. Even if we switch cover stories only hours before the printing deadline, the magazine still reaches the readers on schedule." That is the real payoff on our investment...
...hostages." Echoed Secretary of State James Baker: "We are not going to deal, and we are not going to negotiate." The Administration believes any accommodation of the demands for reciprocity would only raise the ante for the release of the others. Bush is particularly sensitive about offering any payoff because he was nearly burned by the Iran-contra affair. He was not even willing to send Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly to Damascus to arrange Polhill's release for fear Kelly might be drawn into negotiating with the kidnapers...
...extent that the borrowed money was invested productively. And the share of Government spending going to productive investment has declined over the decade, as our crumbling infrastructure can attest. So interest payments on the national debt have made at least a small contribution to income inequality without any growth payoff. If traditional welfare is paying people not to work (a common gripe), this is the capitalist equivalent: paying money not to work...