Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson has stayed close in its last four games. Harvard hopes Saturday will bring the payoff. B.C. 2 HARVARD...
...more substance lyrically, the music is not as immediate, but there's a good payoff if you listen enough," Hanley modestly notes. Compared to the band's past albums, Aurora Gory Alice and Wholesale Meats and Fish, GO! "covers more ground musically and explores new territory within the confines the pop song has to offer." She deservedly touts it as "the band's best, ...a more complete album...
...regret from Clinton about any harm to her reputation--was the best she could do and strongly urged her to take it. But Jones, now married with two young children and living in California, has long said she was in this fight to win an apology, not a payoff. And with Carpenter-McMillan's backing, she rejected her lawyers' advice. The attorneys promptly filed, and were granted, a motion to dump the case. Says Carpenter-McMillan: "This case was never about money. It was always about language...
Another departure from the past has to do with the stocks of small companies. They typically do not pay a dividend--the payoff is in price appreciation. That makes them more desirable when the cap-gains rate falls because dividends get taxed as ordinary income--a higher rate for most investors. Yet big stocks have been rising fastest all year, and that could persist. Why? Big stocks, as defined by the S&P 500, now have a measly 1.6% dividend yield, vs. 6% in the early '80s. In short, they're also being managed for growth instead of income...
...poor Clinton gave up the summer-vacation spot he liked and apparently spent at least one night in a tent. My sympathy for his sacrifice was limited. I spent precisely twice that many nights camping out with the kids in tents, and I'm still waiting for the electoral payoff...