Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found that the fastest payoff came for students who chose top-tiered private schools with a financial aid offer over private schools two tiers below. These students, on average, made back the difference in tuition in less than six months...
...Bacon) hardly seems the prescient sort. Yet when he is hypnotized at a party, he tumbles into nightmares--or is it another dimension?--harboring fatal secrets. Scenarist Koepp (Jurassic Park) smoothly adapts a novel by Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come) with vagrant similarities to The Sixth Sense. The payoff is relatively small change, but the setup is persuasive: a portrait of a blue-collar marriage in mute distress. And strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared...
...shower, when the scrotum is relaxed and soft. The danger signs include a hard, painless lump attached to the testicles or, less commonly, testicular enlargement or scrotal swelling. Probing their testicles, even gently, may not be high on most men's list of appealing ideas. But given the potential payoff, they should do it anyway...
...looked and didn't want them, because they felt it would compromise the product they already had," contends Kevin Samara, president of the National Association of Limited Edition Dealers. Says Ken Raasch, Kinkade's founding partner at Media Arts: "The art establishment in this country knows there's a payoff if they keep art out of the reach of the average person...
...hasn't been easy for Jean to raise her two daughters, now 16 and 13, while devoting herself to a more than full-time job. But the payoff has been making a difference to a cause she deeply believes in. "I could never have spent as much time and energy," she says, her large green eyes shining, "on something that was less important...