Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right enough for them, posing a danger for Reed if he continues to accommodate himself to the party's moderate elements. In March, James Dobson, head of the powerful Focus on Family organization, fired off open letters to party chairman Haley Barbour, complaining bitterly about the lack of immediate payoff from the November election. Fearful of compromising with "anti-family" elements, Dobson argued that it was time to fold the all-inviting "big tent" of the Republican Party. In contrast, Reed argues for a more inclusive Coalition and struggles to appear more secular (in New Hampshire last week, for example...
...Alexander Stille points out in Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (Pantheon; 467 pages; $27.50), this unholy alliance had a dramatic payoff. To the embarrassment of police, Mafia gunmen ambushed and killed the notorious, elusive bandit Salvatore Giuliano, who for years had terrorized rural Sicily. By appearing to abet law and order, the Mafia acquired a prestige and cachet that it had never possessed since first surfacing in the early 19th century...
...memoir, he used the anecdote as a jumping-off point for talking about playing with paper dolls when he was young, watching his mother's moment of fame on the television show "The Big Payoff," listening to her talk about white people and going with her to PTA meetings...
...days just before and right after last year's election, Republicans outgained Democrats 3 to 1 in large "soft money" contributions. And in the first two months of this year, the Republican National Committee has already received more such funds than in all of 1993. The biggest single payoff will come next month at a dinner benefiting both the House and Senate campaign committees. Senators ranging from New York's Alfonse D'Amato to Michigan's Spence Abraham have been personally dunning CEOs. But the hard sell is not necessary. The PAC of the big-time lobbying law firm Verner...
...Washington Post said DON'T LET HER SEASON END IN A LAWSUIT. But the horse the conservatives rode hardest was the case of the elderly woman who was awarded $2.9 million in a judgment against McDonald's after she burned herself with a McDonald's cup of coffee (the payoff was reduced on appeal to $480,000). As Suffolk Law School professor Michael Rustad told TIME, despite the perception out there of vast monies changing hands in these cases, only 10% of punitive-damages awards of more than $10 million are paid; 90% are reduced or reversed...