Pavel was all too happy to give payoffs in order to get a project done, as long as everyone else understood and played by the rules.

Bethlen restored order to the country by giving the radical counterrevolutionaries payoffs and government jobs in exchange for ceasing their campaign of terror against Jews and leftists.

If Bob chooses any dollar value 2-98 inclusive, $99 and $100 give equal payoffs; if Bob chooses $99 or $100, choosing $99 nets Alice an extra dollar.

Not as long as I stayed around those determined to give me cheap payoffs.

For instance, some equilibria may give higher payoffs, be naturally more salient, may be more fair, or may be safer.

One deck consistently gave high payoffs in the short term but less in winnings in the long term.

Rather, she said, "It was an extortion scheme designed to elicit or be given payoffs in order really to do the job that these inspectors were supposed to do without those payments."

In the Hawk Dove game the resource is sharable, which gives payoffs to both Doves meeting in a pairwise contest.

RATIONAL, constructive shareholder activism doesn't always make directors more accountable - and it rarely gives investors immediate payoffs.

The president of a Brooklyn demolition company was convicted yesterday of giving payoffs to a Federal inspector to overlook violations of rules for asbestos removal and disposal.