Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doggedness of obsessive love. Harry tracks his recalcitrant Honey to her home; when she rebuffs him, he plants honey-tree saplings that will take eight years to mature and produce the nectar she craves. And so he waits for the delivery of this long, arboreal love letter. The payoff is enough to bring Harry Joy, Honey Barbara and the viewer together in a state of amazing grace. It's called bliss...
...shipment to Haiti, reburying a murdered colleague whose resting place is threatened by a new housing development. Hill forms no permanent friendships and makes no future plans. Everything is for the moment, and associates, even those who gave him a hand, are betrayed for the sake of the bigger payoff, the easier deal. Only at home is life a chore. "You'll find that most wiseguy wives do their own housework, no matter how rich they are," Hill tells Pileggi, "because strangers can't be trusted to keep their mouths shut." Modern wiseguys who cannot keep their mouths shut...
Crack's low price and quick payoff make it especially alluring to teenagers. Young abusers, said Arnold Washton, a New York expert on treating cocaine addicts, "run the gamut from inner-city ghetto kids to kids from affluent suburbs." But the price of this highly concentrated drug is greater than many youngsters realize: New Jersey's national cocaine hot line (1-800-COCAINE) has found that 98% of the callers say they became addicted to crack within six months...
...cigarette advertising is aimed at protecting minors. Critics of the tobacco industry scoff at its claims that cigarette ads are designed primarily to get smokers to stick with one brand or try another. "A rather small number of smokers switch," maintains Northeastern University Law Professor Richard Daynard. "The big payoff is in getting people to smoke, and the fresh market is entirely kids." Cigarette advertisers counter that they do not promote directly to a youth market, that they do not use sports or entertainment stars, and that all models in ads must appear to be 25 or older. The Supreme...
...payoff from the SSC should be even greater. As it is now conceived, the accelerator would generate energies of 40 trillion electron volts, in contrast to the 640 billion electron volts produced by CERN's SPPS accelerator. More impressive still, it would produce collisions 20 times as powerful as the generation of big machines now under construction at CERN, Fermilab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Whizzing past each other, the SSC's two opposing beams, consisting of closely packed bunches of about 10 billion protons each, would complete about 3,000 laps a second. In four to six places...