Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carrying Weight--the payoff given each jockey before the race. The amount must be large enough to satisfy his greed, but not so big it will weigh down the horse...
...Play the track favorite. If someone can pick winners they don't need to make a lousy living telling other people. Even if the favorite wins you lose, because the payoff on an odds-on horse won't even pay for the first bite...
...whose combined skills appear to provide the magic blend, baseball owners today are involved in a more risky and expensive affair than ever before. To purchase the services of a top quality ballplayer today is much like buying a thoroughbred: if the horse lives up to its potential, the payoff can be great, but if he fails to perform, the investment backfires...
...Soviet embassy's residence in northwest Washington. Thinking that the packet might be a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet activists, an embassy watchman called in U.S. officials. Moore was later caught by FBI agents, who lured him into a trap baited with a fake payoff package ostensibly from the Soviets. Moore's attorney said his client may change his plea to innocent by reason of insanity, and produced a psychiatrist who told the court that Moore appeared to be paranoid and insane at the time he tried to peddle a CIA directory to the Soviets...
...Delayed Payoff. Neither Goods nor Bads ever catch the imagination or evoke concern for their fates or pity for their states. The picture, in short, is without human interest-as most of Hollywood's big machines are these days. Since no one seems to care about these matters any more, Black Sunday may well make a bundle, thanks to the technical skill with which it manages its long-delayed payoff. But it is getting tiresome to be forced to admire, for want of anything else to do, the skill with which moviemakers jerk audiences around. It is hard...