1.   Analysts doubt a quick payoff.

2.   But at the same time, investigators were pressed to pursue research that might offer quick payoffs for desperate patients.

3.   EIS Chief Executive Joseph Porfeli in a Bloomberg Forum last week said he expects management changes and restructuring in the first quarter to produce a quick payoff.

4.   In some cases, a company may have made so many acquisitions that investors fret it will have trouble digesting another company and getting a quick payoff.

5.   Nothing like a short deadline for quick payoff.

6.   One quick payoff of the research begun after anthrax was mailed to media and political targets is a promising approach to stretch existing stocks of smallpox vaccine.

7.   Yet no one expects a quick payoff.

8.   Neither plan has a quick payoff.