21.   For headline seekers, however, the genre still offered big payoffs.

22.   For the hotel workers, militancy has had big payoffs.

23.   Foreign automakers already in China may finally see the big payoff.

24.   Funds with big quarterly or yearlong numbers tend to be in the right place, making big bets at just the right time to get a big payoff.

25.   Hugh Holman, an analyst at Robertson Stephens, thinks that the incubator structure furnishes diversification and can result in big payoffs from initial offerings.

26.   If an unusual talent for hitting a baseball is worth millions, how about a big payoff for maintaining a fabulous wealth of meaningless information?

27.   IBM, since the arrival of chief executive Louis Gerstner, has been willing to take technical risks with the chance for big payoffs in product leadership.

28.   If technology stocks have pleased investors, the gaming industry also has seen a big payoff.

29.   It is being fought top down, by a politics than demands big payoffs for the rich.

30.   It was time for the big emotional payoff.