Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than 800 large employers between 1989 and '92. So Republican Governor Pete Wilson pushed through a package of incentives, including across-the-board tax credits aimed at high-tech manufacturers, and created so-called Red Teams of public and private officials to persuade wavering companies not to move. One payoff came last year when a Long Beach--led team assembled an $80 million package that kept McDonnell Douglas from shifting part of the production of its new MD-11 jetliner to other states...
...plaid shirt, gray cardigan and the trademark black-rimmed glasses. Which, of course, is exactly what people pay to see. With concert fees reportedly in the $40,000-plus range, the show seems a lucrative proposition. But for Allen, who hardly needs the money, kicks may be the main payoff...
...considerable," write Cookson and Persell. "Prep schools have responded [to the increasing difficulty involved in getting into a top college] by honing their very professional college advisory operation and by exercising what political clout they can in relation to the colleges. The result is a higher--though not perfect--payoff for elite prep school graduates, compared to other applicants...
...mostly around government spending cuts: who must take the pain, and how much of it. But as the dealing moves into what may be the final stages, the other side of the balance sheet--taxes, specifically tax cuts--has become just as contentious a battleground: who will get the payoff, and how much of it. With both sides closing the gap between their spending plans, the focus will turn to the proposed $245 billion G.O.P. tax reduction and Bill Clinton's $98 billion counter...
...assault charges. And then the real drama starts. Ligier's attorney calls De Niro's people and offers to drop the charges in return for, say, $300,000. De Niro and his lawyers decide to play along. The attorneys negotiate the price down to $150,000, and the cash payoff takes place in a limo--with cops listening in. Bingo! Ligier spends the next six hours in custody. De Niro calls it extortion; Ligier says that's a lot of raging bull. The D.A. is letting a grand jury make the call...