Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Costas must draw upon a year of memorizing Olympic facts and cramming history to meet his greatest professional challenge. As Olympics ringmaster, Costas has the best -- and hottest -- seat in the house. Characteristically, he deflects the pressure with a joke. The Barcelona assignment, he says, is just the "payoff for three years of saying, 'We'll be right back after these messages...
Twenty-seven hours is a significant amount of time. Faculty members would have to change some commitments and priorities. But the extra work is certainly worth the payoff. A system such as this would dramatically boost the quantity and quality of the University's advising for all student...
...explore a deal with Otisca. They took a lot of notes and seemed interested, says Smith, but have yet to follow up. A representative of Pakistan has made inquiries. Markets in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have a lot of potential but not much prospect of immediate payoff. For Smith, who hasn't had a paycheck in two years, that's important...
...charm. In 11 of the 14 rats, the tumors disappeared completely. The results were so promising that an NIH watchdog committee has already okayed a similar test on humans. The risks are high. The researchers will, in effect, be putting mouse genes directly into human brains. But the payoff could be great. Scientists are now searching for other inoperable cancers that might succumb to what they are calling "molecular surgery...
...lobbyists in Congress, the SEC last year removed a 57-year-old regulation that required corporate insiders who exercised options to wait at least six months before selling the stock. The rule, which accounted for the vast majority of violations by corporate insiders, served partly to reduce the potential payoff for improper trades. Now when insiders decide to unload their portfolios, they can get a bigger bang for the buck by exercising their options and immediately selling the stock. The change in the law, according to some securities experts, was a sop to Big Business. Says Levy...