Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reno, where the Electra was waiting for them. At the last minute, Douglas Abalan, 38, and his wife Beverly, dreading the four-hour flight and the 5 a.m. arrival in Minneapolis, checked into Reno's MGM Grand Hotel and played the slot machines. She hit a payoff of $300, then $150. He struck a $1,500 jackpot. The Electra, meanwhile, had been used on other hops around the West. Another crew was about to fly it out of Las Vegas on Sunday morning when an Eastern Airlines pilot, following the Electra, radioed the tower: "You ought to tell that Lockheed...
...unions hope for a payoff next time ore than a year ago, the 13.7 million-member AFL-CIO took the unprecedented step of endorsing a Democratic presidential candidate, Walter Mondale, before a single caucus or primary had been held. The goal: to establish labor early on as the decisive element in the Democrats' bid for the White House. "If we do not do what we propose to do, we shall be reviled as toothless and irrelevant," said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland at the time. "If we succeed, we shall be condemned for daring to aspire to a share...
...indictment of six present and former Government workers. According to the indictment, Tax Agent Meyer Weiss examined Nipon's 1978 and 1979 returns and discovered that they were fraudulent. But instead of filing a report with his office, Weiss conducted a phony audit in exchange for the payoff. In November 1980, Nipon made the first of what would be four $50,000 cash payments to another IRS agent, Edmond Costantini, who served as intermediary. In 1982 Costantini paid $15,000 to a third IRS agent so that Nipon's 1980 corporate return would be approved...
...important payoff for Duarte's meticulous groundwork was the reaction of rightist politicians and conservative businessmen in San Salvador. Declared the powerful National Association of Private Enterprise, a group that had long opposed Duarte's left-of-center economic policies: "If the Salvadoran terrorists lay down their arms and work in peace toward their objectives, they are welcome to work shoulder-to-shoulder in the country's electoral process...
...spent $75,000 to find the wreck, and will spend a million more to complete the salvage. The payoff: $5 million to perhaps $500 million, of which Delaware will claim 25%. About $50,000 of the salvor's initial investment went for one indispensable tool: side-scanning sonar of the type used by U.S. Navy ships searching for Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in the Sea of Japan last year. Mounted in a torpedo-shaped housing, the side-scanner emits pulses horizontally as well as vertically. It is towed behind a search ship, which methodically crisscrosses a designated area...