| It has been a year of poachings, price cuts, sackings, slanging matches and eye-wateringly large payoffs. |
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| They got good payoffs lotsa times before, even when winning only 9 out of every ten bets. |
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| Because of his ability, Tragos was often given a middleweight title, but the middleweights were no heavyweights when it came time for payoffs. |
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| Companies are continuing to award executives with huge severance payoffs, or so-called golden parachutes. |
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| As this model is analyzed only in terms of average payoffs, these results are not affected by these assumptions. |
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| Delay is endemic within the Indian judiciary, a fact that effectively forecloses using litigation to gain quick payoffs. |
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| It has analyzed bribery by which areas of business are most ridden by large-scale illegal payoffs. |
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| Those who exercise regularly cite important physical and psychological payoffs. |
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| It also means that the trifecta payoffs at that track are likely to be smaller than average, due to larger numbers of bettors splitting the pools. |
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| They doubled the payoffs across all outcomes, and they offered far greater rewards for a solitary confessor. |
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| The glacial pace of this public psychodrama is hardly likely to amplify those limited payoffs. |
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| This glamorous online game proffers immense chances to acquire fantabulous hard cash payoffs. |
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| Despite these longeurs and transparent payoffs, The Boy's often prop-fuelled frenzy bubbles along with an unstoppably jaunty momentum. |
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| Probabilities of events occurring and payoffs for events and decisions are added to each node in the tree. |
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| Needless to say, the uncertainty that surrounded the potential magnitude of the payoffs added a rather interesting sense of gamesomeness to the plan. |
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| In addition, there is a decades-long history of suspicion surrounding oil company operations in Alaska because of environmental damage and rumored backroom deal-making and political payoffs. |
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| The stewards declare the race official, and then payoffs are flashed on the totalizator. |
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| Not beatifying or canonizing John Paul would be hugely symbolic, a message far more powerful than the ad hoc apologies and payoffs to victims. |
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| More pertinently, while social investment does not exhibit immediate economic payoffs, the long-term development returns are evident. |
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| The work is fast paced, but the payoffs are big and a real sense of achievement is felt at the end of the day. |
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| Here, a guide to gauging the risks and payoffs of kill-or-capture operations. |
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| We have seen corruption through the ad scam issue, payoffs to Liberal friends and payoffs into party coffers to run campaigns. |
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| However, the payoffs of using that technology would be tens of thousands of dollars per patient if fully implemented. |
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| This approach is very risky due to the large investment it entails, and although the payoffs are often big, the chances of success are slim. |
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| So the spillovers will increase the longer-term payoffs of long-term research in informing the operational work of the Bank. |
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| This systematic approach ensures that TSB investigation resources are invested in areas with the greatest potential safety payoffs. |
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| Some would call him stubborn for holding out on payoffs from the oil companies. |
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| However, he emphasized the potential payoffs that this social investment approach to welfare could have, over the long term, in improving people's life chances and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. |
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| This could mean either that there is no discernible financial payoff to innovative workplace practices or that payoffs do exist but that these could not be captured with the data and methodology. |
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| The payoffs here seem to be primarily non-monetary. |
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| The songs put dance beats, rock guitars, piano hymns, string orchestras and hip-hop loops at the disposal of her voice, all leading to those leather-lunged payoffs. |
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| What's more, their strategic value and launch at a time when great companies are looking to hone their competitive edges produce substantial payoffs. |
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| The rules pages provide a brief history of the game, instructions for how to play, the rules of play and details about how payoffs are calculated. |
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| This pertains in particular to the payment of bribes and payoffs and to extortion in order to exert influence on business partners and representatives of politics, administration, judicial systems or the public. |
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| The authors construct a new volatility surface frontier in a three-dimensional space by considering not only the expected asset payoffs and variances, but also asset skewness. |
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| It seems likely that such additional data collection would be especially warranted in cases for which interventions promise only relatively long term payoffs. |
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| The NAO prompted the recent BBC convulsions over executive severance payments after revealing in two separate reports that the BBC had spent £2.9m more than it was contractually obliged in payoffs to former senior executives. |
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| Are today's students right in concluding that the career payoffs in this field are poor, relative to the entry cost combined with the alternatives? |
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| Ray Unsell, a special agent with the National Insurance Crime Bureau, based in Las Vegas, said car thieves take advantage of the relatively low risk and huge payoffs. |
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| Several city officials have been accused of receiving payoffs from the company. |
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| Payoffs and kickbacks and cheating and lying to the public are a way of life. |
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