"Some oil wells will pay off and some won't, but the ones that do pay off will pay off big time, " says Peter Ticconi Jr.
Organizations will need to segment the investments that will pay off in the longer term from those that will pay off in the coming 12 to 24 months.
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This is because countries tend not to actually pay off their debts: they hope that the economy will grow faster than the debt and so will become less important but they very rarely actually pay off the old debts.
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The IMF retorts that it might take 20 years for Europe to pay off the government debt built up during the 2008 financial crisis, global recession, and recovery, recalling that it took that long to pay off the debts Europe ran up during World War II without unduly creating hardships on the population.
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Under this proposal, illegals, in order to gain legal status, would have to register with the government, pay a fine, pay off any back taxes owed and, if they wanted to stay, learn English.
That's money in their pocket -- money you can use right now to pay your bills, or pay off your debts, or save up for a rainy day, to save for retirement or that college education for your child.
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.
Perhaps less frequently noted are the pay plans that provide such a big performance incentive for individuals that they can lead people to take risky and even illegal actions in order to make their pay -for-performance compensation plans pay off.
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Few Argentine politicians are prepared to pay the political cost of spending cuts or tax rises to pay off bondholders.
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Other than Forbes-ranked billionaire Vijay Mallya whipping out a few hundred million dollars to pay off debtors and back pay owed to the airlines staffers, nothing.
One of the things Ackman finds fault with this model is that very few people make it to the top of the pyramid reaping off a huge pay-off, while the vast majority is losing money.
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Kingfisher employees have taken the airline to court, asking the company to be placed into bankruptcy, its assets sold to pay off eight months of back pay owed to numerous employees.
In addition, it ensures that those who come here are those who either have enough income to pay for entry or can prove to private parties that they expect enough income to pay off a loan of equal value.
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It has issued a series of bonds this year, in part to pay off maturing obligations and partly to pay suppliers.
First I pay off all my credit card debt and evaluate paying off any other debt I have.
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He said he would also use some of the money to pay off his parents' and sister's mortgages and to pay for his family to fly first class to Australia to visit his aunt.
Many students, however, say they have no trouble borrowing the money from their families and are confident the investment will pay off handsomely when they graduate with the freedom to find their own jobs and negotiate their pay.
Instead of saving for retirement or a home down payment, they will struggle for years, even decades, to pay off what they borrowed for school, and that's if they can even begin to pay the money back.
The famously private and self-deprecating billionaire will need lots of luck to make all of it pay off.
In order to get out of mortgage, you have to actually pay off the old mortgage.
What if, before you die, you get a pay off and it costs you nothing?
The sacrifice of those who work to create a society that makes sense does pay off.
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Fund manager says investing in agriculture export is bound to pay off in the long run.
Statkraft isn't blinkered when it comes to the challenge of making this technology pay off.
And borrowers had to bring their capital back home to pay off their debts.
Still, investors are likely to keep paying up as some of these bets pay off.
But it still took us almost 10 years to finally pay off all our student debt.
Among them, the Brazilian government strived to pay off debts before the credit crisis hit.
In the online experiment volunteers pay off loans of various sizes and interest rates.
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