21.   Far more complicated is who is paying for what the government is not, and how much that is.

22.   FBI officials in Boston a few years ago watched as neurologists golfed or saw private patients while being paid to be at the VA.

23.   For a condor, it has long paid to be curious.

24.   How about whether Chrysler is paying attention to the interests of shareholders?

25.   I always favor financial advisers who post their fee upfront, being paid a flat dollar amount or percentage and no more.

26.   If one committee chairman gets to oversee the whole government, it pays to be in the majority.

27.   In a parallel mile-and-a-quarter race for fillies, the New York Handicap, it paid to be Irish.

28.   In general, it pays to be skeptical of any company whose fast growth is largely a result of a frenetic buying spree.

29.   In the crowded market for new corporate debt, sometimes it pays to be different.

30.   Indeed, single men have discovered it pays to be able to execute a good meal.