The pay-off for the unions was drivers were redeployed onto another line and were promoted.
But they hoped the pay-off, in the form of lower interest rates, would be faster.
Whether investors have the patience to hang around for the pay-off is the big question.
But the pay-off comes from being immersed in Ms Patchett's enchanting prose and wondrous storytelling.
Shareholders too may prefer a share buy-back to the uncertain pay-off from an investment programme.
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If the company has floundered, then bonus payments should certainly not be part of that pay-off.
As the audience files out of the theater, there is no emotional pay-off, left right or center.
The pay-off will be more than memorable, however, when you return with memories of a galaxy rarely seen.
The driving force for all of this is the multi-million pound pay-off if the waste can be dumped secretly.
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Roby Tschopp, head of shareholder group Actares, had described the pay-off as "scandalous".
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The director general, George Entwistle, has taken responsibility and resigned (though he has also taken an unsuitably large pay-off).
When a consultant receives brokerage or conference fees from a manager it recommends a fund hire, that is a pay-off.
While more distant, the pay-off from spintronics could be even more revolutionary than anything nanotech has stirred up so far.
When asked if he received a pay-off, he told the committee he could not reveal the amount due to "confidentiality".
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They found that the full pay-off from reform usually took five years to materialise, but that some gains appear sooner.
The researchers believe the evolutionary pay-off is increased genetic diversity, allowing some of the cubs to more readily adapt to change.
Lemerre leaves a year into his four-year contract after a resolution of pay-off terms was reached with the Morocco Football Federation.
But football managers are well paid, he will receive a handsome pay-off and will be back in work again soon, I hope.
The success of Little Cyclops however has helped him pay-off mounting student fees and encouraged him to further test his powers of invention.
Government funding for education should be going to the areas where there will clearly be a pay-off to the economy down the road.
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Mr Brown preferred a quicker political pay-off, by giving more money to today's poorer pensioners, even though it would worsen the long-term problems.
The digitally distributed video game market has grown by over 200% since 2010 and we expect this growth to pay-off for GameStop.
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As a result of the settlement, City have dropped their appeal against the tribunal which said the club were not entitled to a pay-off.
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The board of cash-strapped Telecom Italia rejected the proposal, arguing that the pay-off was unwarranted, given how poorly shares in the group have performed.
According to Audit Scotland, 40% of the pay-off fund was shared by just 1, 200 high earners in the sector, including government, NHS, police and fire.
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He noted that the contract updated in 2009 was for 39 months, though he's claiming a mere 12 months pay would be a reasonable pay-off.
He runs a number of funds that allow patient investors to take a punt on a basket of ideas that may produce a long-term pay-off.
Banks, for their part, view the fees charged for capital-raising in part as a pay-off for the effort and expense put into their corporate-broking work.
Basque peace could be a pay-off for Mr Zapatero's softly-softly approach to Spain's most enduring political problem: regional tensions in the Basque country and in Catalonia.
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