Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elections are always entertaining. But the payoff is in the work of the government that elections create. We hope you find this guide useful as you do your part in building a government that works...
...that this show, short as it is, can seem very long. Towards the end, as the techniques that were once startling--head-banging, repetition, shouting--became familiar, I found myself longing for something genuinely risky--a violent gesture, or a vulnerable one, anything that would seem like a payoff to all the build-up. Instead, the show's climax is a laughable quotation from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, as if the famous fanfare could create drama in an essentially static piece...
...join. The NATO expansion might possibly work with less opposition from Russia if the U.S. and its allies were to bring Russia into close consultations to work out a treaty which deals with the issue. By linking it to other European security agreements and building in an economic payoff with some other confidence-building measures, the Russians might reduce their opposition." -->