Sentence examples for poor payoff from inspiring English sources

The long-rumored deal is a poor payoff for Helio's founders.

If Spector does evade justice it will be a poor payoff to audiences.

It's hard to find an independent economist who thinks that the Bush proposal would create the 1.4 million jobs claimed by the administration -- and as I've explained in this column, even that many jobs would be a poor payoff for a tax cut that big.

Initial inferior repliers, such as ciliates with initial low responsiveness, higher costs, and poorer net payoffs, advertised meager fitness by prudently saving resources and signaling escape with contractions or reversals at lower rates.

But 3 months after their last drink, they always preferred the risky lever, even when they payoff was poor, the researchers report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

6 The rich have higher maximum payoffs than the poor (200 vs. 92) and have higher payoffs at all redistribution levels except for the maximum redistribution level which equalizes incomes (payoff of 27 each).

"So you can use this powerful entity as you want to, either to rake payoffs from poor candy-store owners, or to kick the district attorney's behind".

Fig. 2 shows that redistribution decreases efficiency (the sum of the payoffs normalized to the sum of maximum payoffs) but increases equality (measured by the payoff of the poor relative to the rich).

He also found that, if you view the expense of going to college and professional school as an investment, the payoff is somewhat poorer in medicine than in other professions.

Reduced dependence on purchased inputs such as pesticides would make technology more accessible to poor farmers, with environmental and health payoffs.

For example, the poor may be spiteful and willing to sacrifice own payoff to reduce the payoff of the rich.