41.   Savings and loans that won a Supreme Court battle for the right to sue the U.S. government may soon find out whether that victory will produce a big payoff.

42.   Senior officials hoped that a breakthrough on the Superfund revision would be the first big payoff from consensus-building.

43.   So desperate for blood was England last year that Rusedski, born and raised in Canada of immigrant parents, was lured to British citizenship by big payoffs.

44.   So far, these newfangled deals generally occur at high-technology or entertainment companies, where the potential for growth, and thus big payoffs, is huge.

45.   She is getting impatient for her turn at the big payoff.

46.   Some research financed by the Department of Energy, which is threatened with major cuts, has also had big payoffs.

47.   The answer seems to be that a tower company might not be profitable now, but it can get funding from investors who expect a big payoff.

48.   That, of course, is a big payoff for the discount firms, but they say they are just giving customers what they want.

49.   The big payoff came after Sumitomo said it fired Hamanaka for losses recorded during a decade of unauthorized trading.

50.   The big payoffs, he added, tend to come where the decision to dismiss someone is partly political.