| The first number in the ordered pairs for each outcome is the payoff to the row player, the second number the payoff to the column player. |
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| James Cagney plays Patsy Gargan, a two-bit racketeer who is awarded a post as deputy commissioner of a boys reform school as a political payoff. |
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| So long as the payoff phrase is not actually a subject, the basic case rule would predict accusative case. |
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| Organizations are assumed to choose a policy that their cognitive representation suggests maximizes their payoff. |
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| This result stems from the complexity of the actual payoff landscape and the relative crudeness of the cognitive representation. |
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| Imagine tossing a coin until it lands heads-up, and suppose that the payoff grows exponentially according to the number of tosses you make. |
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| Many teams have survived after players faltered in high-pressure payoff situations. |
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| This is meant to encourage researchers to pursue their ideas more freely if the payoff is potentially significant. |
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| Why work as a wage slave when the promise of big payoff from being on TV is only an audition away? |
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| By the end you'll be rooting for our British hope and begging for the romantic payoff. |
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| While the payoff is barely worth the effort, I was forced to marvel at his storytelling verve and his inventive prose style. |
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| The setup and the payoff were far too attenuated, and I candidly couldn't tell you what beer the ad was for. |
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| The law, enacted in response to a state payoff scandal, was set to take effect at the start of the year. |
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| The real payoff in present terms is the spinoff technology that will be used for future lunar and interplanetary missions. |
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| Changing gears smoothly in a cheap, bottom of the range, skedonk, is harder, so the payoff is much greater. |
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| Pacing is crucial, the set ups must be executed without fault, and the payoff has to be timed perfectly in order to give life to the humor. |
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| In August, Sanderson claims, the funds somehow vanished as they moved from the escrow account to the payoff department. |
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| The payoff for designers is public exposure, beautiful photographs for a portfolio, and the opportunity to spread their creative wings. |
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| You just need to ask yourself what the payoff is and deny yourself that payoff. |
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| He built the tenderness up slowly and carefully, until its consummation delivered a powerful emotional payoff. |
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| Such support was pivotal in conjunction with vetoes threatened and vetoes cast, even if the payoff was not instantaneous. |
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| However, don't expect a cathartic payoff, because there is little emotional messiness in this largely intellectual exercise. |
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| Splitting water to produce molecular oxygen and molecular hydrogen has a big potential payoff. |
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| We still don't know what the outcome will be, but if it is successful the payoff will be huge. |
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| This tax disincentive effect will therefore further reduce the altruistic payoff to the young. |
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| But, they more than payoff as a chance to see classic, clever sketch comedy in its earliest days of television. |
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| If you must have a car, take your company car as part of your payoff. |
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| Sure, a budget involves a bit of work on your part, but the payoff is financial discipline and peace of mind. |
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| It's nit-picky, perhaps, but foregrounding the post-birth DNA test before the actual birth might have helped for the payoff. |
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| It's like being on a boat, sleeping on the bus, waking, buying a lift ticket, being pulleyed up the mountain, the payoff, the floating dance of linked telemark turns. |
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| Most rewarding are seemingly unrelated stories, like Toby's impending fatherhood, that end up having a poignant payoff within the cliffhanger ending of the season. |
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| The payoff is philosophical indeed, giving concrete reference to abstract thought on meanings of destruction. |
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| This investment can payoff handsomely in times of crisis, and helps keep existing strong customer base loyal. |
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| However, there is no deadline for this payoff and estimates have placed it far into the future. |
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| The sentence is dictated by statute and therefore the defendant gets next to no payoff for his guilty plea. |
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| Worse yet, such a tax cut would look remarkably like a political payoff. |
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| The spillover economic benefits of reunification also have a political payoff, integrating the countries of the region in a set of cooperative commercial relationships. |
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| The length of the term of that payoff is gradually shrinking as the technology gets better and costs come down. |
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| While the methods may be back-breaking and labor-intensive, the payoff, winemakers say, is a purer, better quality wine and a product that's healthier. |
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| From a Wall Street perspective, Buffett got privileged, and not level-playing-field, access as a payoff for his imprimatur. |
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| The payoff is a greatly increased chance of pleasurable riding and an enhanced quality of life. |
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| Suddenly, there's a lot more than revenge at stake and in the climactic scenes there's a much more emotional and satisfying payoff than mere blood and guts. |
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| However, the experience of leading companies shows the payoff can be significant. |
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| The real payoff from social protection is in protecting other investments we are making in development. |
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| Because the barriers to trade in services are extensive, the payoff for reducing them is great. |
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| Jana Bennett, the executive in question, was unaware her redundancy payoff was initially funded by the licence fee. |
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| The bottom line is there is serious money to be spent on economic development and a plan to ensure it has real payoff. |
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| They tend to prefer populist initiatives, using instant gratification, whereas your kind of project provides the payoff in the medium term. |
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| An occurrence will not be classified until sufficient facts are available to assess the potential for safety payoff. |
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| Those choosing to work supply one unit of labour inelastically at the current payoff. |
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| The results of that model are then used as the payoff for each path through the decision tree. |
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| Do we scale up effective intervention now and see a payoff in the next few years, or squander that opportunity? |
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| Theoderic's payoff included precious metal from stripping the remaining public ornaments of Italia, and an unsupervised campaign in Hispania. |
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| The principle of a lookback option is to give the investor the maximum payoff based on perfect hindsight. |
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| The short-term payoff for this is modest, but the optionality value is enormous. |
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| The payoff is crucial to sustaining team morale. |
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| That is the payoff when you find something worth working toward and succeed: darkness, an underground sanctuary, the flesh of a young cow in your mouth whenever you want it. |
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| When consumers are informed and wise about money matters, the strategic payoff, in the end, is a much stronger marketplace and better business for all. |
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| That means that even novice card counters can really make a fortune off this game when they make a huge 2:1 payoff when easily knowing when the deck is full of 10 point cards. |
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| Mathematical and computer-based simulations have shown, for example, that a simple strategy of tit-for-tat can generate the highest payoff of all, even in a classic Prisoner's Dilemma situation. |
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| Several researchers have used coordination games with Pareto-ranked Nash equilibria to study the effects of changing the payoff level. |
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| It's all about an official called Katherine Kerswell, who received a £420,000 payoff in June when she left the chief executive's job at Kent county council. |
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| I wasn't afraid of losing, and financially I would have got a huge payoff. |
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| The BBC agreed to fund a redundancy payoff of nearly £700,000 to a former senior executive using licence fee money, after she moved to BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm. |
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| The point is that Europe is working together in a thrilling intellectual exploration that can have no conceivable commercial or political payoff but could, in some still intangible way, enlighten all humankind. |
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| And, should we have failed, we suggested we would have been happy with a payoff of less than half of the £2m that had been given to get rid of Steve McClaren, Capello's totally unsuccessful predecessor. |
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| The success of AIMS is payoff for 12 months of solid development work and successful implementation, all in line with the strategy LM Gemplus has been deploying since its inception. |
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| While not mandatory, a course is a small investment that has a big payoff in terms of helping you to be more aware of boating safety practices, prevention measures, and practical strategies to reduce risks. |
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| The most dramatic payoff was after we had opened a new store last year. |
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| You would expect people to be paid appropriately, but why was there a need for a payoff when there was a start and end date? |
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| Employees will likely accept the offer if they expect that their future payoff with upward option repricing is greater than without it. |
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| Let's take a look at three recurring payoff situations for rafting businesses sharing the North Fork Canyon Run. |
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| If we enter with science and respect, the payoff will last generations. |
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| It is worth noting that subjects invest considerable amounts of time on the noncrucial turns, but these investments have no payoff. |
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| Considering the degree of muscular tension that accessory breathing entails, the net payoff in oxygenation makes it a poor energetic investment. |
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| Advisory group Pirc is urging a vote against the payoff. |
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| Mitch Winehouse, as manager of his daughter's money, has denied the payoff came from her. |
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| Theoderic's payoff included precious metal from stripping the remaining public ornaments of Italy, and an unsupervised campaign in Hispania. |
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| There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. |
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| If the payoff in reducing our overall margin of error isn't large, why do this? |
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| Axed star Adrian Chiles has finally agreed a huge payoff with ITV worth up to PS1million. |
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| When the payoff finally comes, however, it's every man, woman, and cat for themselves in a ruthless quest for wealth, glory, and hootch whiskey. |
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| You'll hike through soaring redwoods, glimpsing an occasional black-tailed deer or belted kingfisher, but the payoff is the view down the green gorge of Big Sur Valley. |
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| The launch of eRelease Payload provides MSP clients with the added functionality of automated order placement into eRelease when the loan payoff transaction occurs. |
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| The loan payoff made the encumbered status of the Rogers Bancshares stock a non-issue heading into the Chapter 11 auction of Metropolitan's holding company. |
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| Davidson notes that these results are somewhat surprising because this intervention knocks down the mutant proteins by only about 60 percent, making the payoff remarkable. |
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| The payoff, the researchers say, should be better radios and enhanced communications techniques for first responders as they deal with future crises. |
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| If I was to lose my job and not be able to pay my mortgage they would take my house away, they wouldnae say, 'Well, sorry about that but here's a big payoff anyway. |
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| The increase in competition for crews on armed merchant vessels and privateers was due, in a large part, because of the chance for a considerable payoff. |
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| The structure of the loan included an IRP decoupling, which allowed the pre-existing monthly interest reduction payment subsidy to continue after payoff of the current loan. |
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| He lost his factory job but received a payoff and a pension. |
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