Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stations and apply it across our ((advertising)) rate card," claims Murdoch, "there's $50 million a year in cash flow that goes straight to the bottom line. As we get up to equal distribution, and the equal credibility of being distributed on VHF, there's a very big payoff...
SOCIETY: A Payoff for Good Behavior...
Awad's send-off and his long-delayed payoff are an apt reflection of the insensitive treatment too often meted out to foreign informants. Officials involved in Awad's case warn that if the U.S. fails to devise a coordinated approach for fostering informants during the long years of a terrorist prosecution, the trickle of foreign informants will dry up. That would be a situation the U.S. could ill afford. Typically, terrorist groups comprise people bound by geography, political injury, even bloodlines. Since U.S. agencies find it almost impossible to penetrate such tight-knit networks, they must rely on defectors...
...mound, in the dugout or the shower." With such details, a sports film can appeal even when it is about spring training -- for how many other kinds of contemporary films actually show people working? An athlete's job may be more glamorous and hazardous than most, the payoff quicker and richer, the taste of failure more acrid. But that urge and pressure to do well at work is universal and an honorable subject for films. As Shelton says, "There are real adult issues that come up: issues of triumph and loss and honor and craft...
...audiences, the payoff varies. When a performer's piece is largely autobiographical, like Shear's or Redgrave's (which ran eight months on Broadway and is touring the country), the theatergoer can get the illusion of making an instant friendship. When the show is a bravura display of physical and vocal transformation from one character to another, like Glaser's deft Family Secrets or Spring's intensely acted if mawkishly overwritten The Mayor of Boys Town, the pleasure is seeing the conjurer's trick. When the writing is ambitiously literary, as in Taylor's eloquent if not galvanically performed pseudo...