But the money has been spent and now it's time to see if it pays off.
We know that if we are investing in things like infrastructure, it pays off.
The fact that it pays off financially for him is just the trailing indicator of a life well lived.
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In San Francisco these days, it pays off to have tech tenants.
Education is an investment, and it pays off in the long run.
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Nothing wrong with that if it pays off for advertisers too.
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"The only thing you can do is play the right way, go for your shots when the opportunity's there, and hope that it pays off, " Murray said.
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When it pays off in the form of victory, it's an authentic realization of human endeavor and potential, Janzen said, the awesomeness of which just might make you cry.
Whoever is running whatever banking institutions are left at that time says hey, I'm going to take that huge risk because if it pays off, I'll get a billion-dollar, you know, bonus.
Dozens of dangerous takes might be needed to get each trick right, but it pays off: short compilations are uploaded to Vimeo and each one becomes a hit with thousands of Facebook fans.
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Dr. EDWARD RICE (Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Foster School of Business, University of Washington): I can take a very large risk and basically be risking the Treasury's money where, if it pays off, I win, and if it doesn't pay off, the Treasury loses.
Ultimately, this is so important for the culture and identity of Palantir that it probably pays off in the long run anyway.
And it always pays off in the end.
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For domestic travel, Global Entry pays off because it gets you into Precheck.
This is where your spreadsheet pays off, because it reveals the total annual lease expenses for each property, regardless of the lease structure.
The main difference was in attack and for once we were getting over two or three phases and it is nice when the hard work pays off.
While that still sounds expensive, compared to the five cents per kilowatt Ford pays to buy energy off the power grid, it's worth it, Ford says.
Instead, it pays to own a selection of asset classes and to sell off gains systematically, using the cash to buy assets that have fallen out of favor.
"Truth-telling pays off, even if you're clumsy about it, " he said.
To narrow the deficit, it will be tempted to short-change infrastructure spending, an investment that pays off slowly.
Ukraine agreed to almost double what it pays for its neighbour's gas after a bitter price dispute which saw Russia cut off supplies for three days in January.
When it comes to lifetime earnings, we've been told, a bachelor's degree pays off six times more than a high-school diploma.
But before you start shorting the stocks of stodgy old companies slow to the Net, consider that it will be some time--a long time--before e-commerce really pays off across Asia.
Assuming you itemize, that payment can be written off as a charitable donation because some of it goes directly to research and the rest pays expenses you incur doing volunteer work, which is always deductible.
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