Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostages from Berri and quickly set them free. Berri had agreed to hand over the Americans without any prior or even simultaneous release of the prisoners in Atlit. That would save face for the U.S. and Israel; both countries had insisted that any outright swap would constitute a payoff for terrorism. It was assumed that Israel would begin "unilaterally" setting the Atlit prisoners free as soon as the American hostages were at liberty. Such a release had in fact been planned and promised before the hijacking drama began...
Days and Nights Within portrays the relationship between a suspected spy (Beth Dixon) and her Communist interrogator (Ken Jenkins). Playwright Ellen McLaughlin has devised some imaginative, lyrical dream sequences, and the acting, especially Dixon's, throbbed with suppressed emotion, but the story provides no revelatory payoff...
Both total and average prices for the best horses each year have multiplied since the mid-70s, fueled greatly by Arab petrodollars and favorable tax laws. The really big money lies in breeding; the Derby's approximately $300,000 winning payoff is peanuts compared to the potential return for the winner in stud fees and offspring sales. Syndications (partnerships behind a horse's stud results) for top stallions can run for $40 million and more. The Derby winner, no matter how fast, is almost invariably retired immediately after the other Triple Crown races, the Belmont and the Preakness. He then...
...effort to catch him, U.S. antinarcotics forces launched one of the most elaborate sting operations in the DEA's history. A dozen agents posed as underworld financiers and traffickers. By purchasing $9 million worth of coca paste, they lured two alleged Suarez associates to Miami for the payoff--and arrested them. As a result of the operation, Suarez was indicted by a Miami federal grand jury: so far, however, he has eluded his pursuers. He has also repeatedly denied any involvement in the drug trade and calls himself "an agro-industrial entrepreneur...
...This, rather than any large financial gain, is the key. Pinchot says that companies should try to tap employees' interest by giving them the freedom and the financial backing to chase their ideas. If they succeed, they may get a bonus or a promotion. But for intrapreneurs, the real payoff is the feeling of success--"I did it, and it worked...