Word: payoffs
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Heilemann also pounded his share of pavement. The payoff is a compelling account of what he calls the "secret history" of the trial, including the clandestine maneuvering of Sun Microsystems, Netscape and other Microsoft enemies, to persuade the Justice Department to bring a lawsuit it didn't want to pursue. In the end, Heilemann draws on the Bible--as his title suggests--rather than Jesuitism to reach much the same conclusion as Auletta's: Gates' arrogance led him to run Microsoft, and the trial, like an "aspiring...
...biggest payoff may come from understanding the genetics of mental illness. Using gene-chip technology, a team at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine recently spotted the same mutation in the DNA of 10 schizophrenic patients. The flaw was in a gene on chromosome 1 called RGS4, which controls the duration of signals in a nerve cell. Intriguingly, the mutation showed up in the brain's visual, motor and cognitive centers. That could account for schizophrenics' hallucinations and attention problems, says team leader Pat Levitt...
...used to be the best bribe in politics, a payoff to the people that never failed to win support or votes. Then came Ross Perot and the Greenspan-Clinton deficit-reduction plan of 1993, which kicked off an eight-year economic paradise of balanced budgets, high growth and low inflation. Tax cuts, especially tax cuts for people that already had money, were selfish and irresponsible...
...Show Them the Money" [BUSINESS, Dec. 4]. Sure, the PGA is making money off Woods' talent, but he is earning dough by playing in PGA tournaments. And if he's entitled to a share of the profits, why doesn't Woods take it a step further and request a payoff from the television stations that broadcast the matches? And how about a cut from the electric companies that supply the power to TV viewers who watch the most boring sport on the planet? TERRENA SHEA Westbrook, Conn...
...actually shaking as he pawed desperately through his little SCOTUS booklet, apparently not reading according to the prescribed manner of any written language but anxious to show he was trying. As anchors at their respective desks champed at their mikes for the single answer, the money shot, the one payoff we'd been waiting for for a month, they discovered it was at the opposite end of a thicket of legalese...