What was the spiritual investment, the payoff, for them?
And the payoff for them might be worth doing something nakedly partisan and hypocritical.
"I don't see any financial payoff for them to buy batteries," he says.
For starters, the drug dealers appear to have disappeared, taking the video – the big payoff – with them.
But the payoff for them would be significant: the immediate, and permanent, defusing of an issue that naturally favors Democrats.
One catch: For investors to be willing to front tuition money, there has to be a payoff for them.
They like the good relationship they've got now, and there's no payoff for them in trying to humiliate him".
"There are many Democrats who have great misgivings about this war, but who feel it has no payoff for them" if they oppose it, said Alan Brinkley, a professor of American history at Columbia University.
Of course, the payoff for them looks be huge if they lead this new era of computing.
It's hard to convince poetry MFAs there's a financial payoff awaiting them upon graduation.
