Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Lott insists that his pokes at Bush aren't payback. "Look, I'm here," he told TIME. "And I'm going to try to be helpful. Sometimes that will get me crossed up with the Administration." But he added, "I am sending the signal that they're going to have to deal with me, and they need to keep that in mind, because I can be a problem." The Senator could settle some scores in the fall of next year, when his memoirs are scheduled to be published. The book will include a chapter on Republican Senators...
...charged with "breach of trust," a violation of fiduciary duty. The case has stunned the German business and political worlds and sparked intense speculation about hidden motives. Some see it as an attack on Germany as a place to do business. Others wonder whether it may be the payback for allowing a big German company to be bought by a non-German competitor. And when the Financial Times splashed on its front page Deutsche Bank's threat to move its headquarters to London - a report from which it later retreated - bankers in Frankfurt openly wondered whether it wasn...
...employee hands-on time 80%. While setup costs for a large company can run from $100 million to $200 million, the efficiencies can amount to 1% of revenues (that's theoretically around $100 million at M&S), says TI's Slinger, which supplied Marks & Spencer. "Companies are talking about payback for the investment in one to two years, even months," he notes...
...also about Amis, and the predicament of being famous in a celebrity-obsessed age. Like the real royal family, he has seen details of his personal life - failed marriage, broken friendships, dental problems - chewed over obsessively by the jaundiced curs of the British press. Now it's payback time. Yellow Dog may not be the deepest, most Booker-worthy novel Amis ever wrote, but it's such nasty, inventive, satisfying fun that his critics will be panting with envy...
...desperate for financing. Four years ago, a typical $100,000 angel investment would have bought a 0.5% stake in a new company. Now the same investment probably buys a 2% to 5% stake, and you're investing at the bottom of the cycle. Don't expect a swift payback, however. Angel investments may remain illiquid for five to 12 years, which could encompass two or even three economic cycles. But the odds of long-term success are best if a company starts during a recovery and finds its footing before the next downturn. (Fees for angel funds...