The departing president, Mr. Kawasoe, had assumed the presidency only three years ago to replace Takemune Kimura who resigned to take responsibility for a scandal involving a payoff to gangsters.
Referring to those proposals, Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, said, "Two of the final items in dispute, two of about five, really involve a payoff to big labor that he's insisting on that we just will not agree to".
In each decision problem the subject is asked to decide between two alternatives (named Left and Right), each involving a payoff pair – one payoff for the subject (the DM) and one for the (randomly matched, anonymous) other subject (the passive person).
Her husband, a Palo County prosecutor, has set her up as the fall girl in an elaborate payoff scheme involving a corrupt judge.
Instead, the eventual payoff of the episode involves a loose strand that we'd forgotten about, which Carbone picks up to slightly conventional but nonetheless powerful effect.
Finally, keep in mind that getting out of debt involves a lot more than picking a debt payoff method.
Note that each question involves a binary choice between a gamble and a safe payoff.
It is the first stepby‐step, first‐person account of a corporate executive involved in the payoff scandals of recent years.
The racketeering charges, contained in two indictments pending since 1990 and 1993, accuse Mr. Gigante of participating in an illegal payoff scheme involving an ironworkers' union and in an extortion conspiracy involving window manufacturing and installation companies doing work for the New York City Housing Authority.
Both statistical models involve a random variable (payoff/offspring number), resulting in a random walk (change in capital/change in population size), and an absorbing state (ruin/extinction).
