Borrow a lot of money, pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, get down to near zero, and bang! World War I.

Wars are expensive. But then we'd pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, and then, oh, what's this? The Civil War. Even more expensive.

We rise to an astronomical level, around 118 percent of GDP, But we pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, and then, what's this?

Ultimately, perhaps, all the pain will pay off.

And I think it'll all pay off in the end.

Suppose my children have to pay off the debt to you that I incurred. They will be worse off.

The risks are massive, but the pay off economic, humanitarian, motivational it's absolutely huge.

Germany had to pay huge sums in war reparations to the Allies (who in turn had large loans from the U.S. to pay off).

However, in the long run, the gains accruing from climate change mitigation will pay off.

There is no guarantee, of course, that the three parts of this wager will pay off.

And, if the bets don t pay off, the cost to the American taxpayer will be even larger.

And establishing a formal mechanism for transatlantic regulatory consultation will eventually pay off, one sector at a time.

The problem with this argument is that governments are rarely faced with having to pay off their debts.

Private savings, as a rule, can pay the costs of treatment only for the thrifty and the well off.

That incentive increases if it can command the resources of a more democratically governed state, where citizens agree to pay taxes (and pay off future debt) because they also control the government.

Only a price reduction would create current account surpluses and enable the crisis countries to pay off their foreign debts.

The constructive (and relatively quick) trade policy response in the aftermath of the Great Depression did not pay off immediately.

Tracing the precise consequences of policy measures or institutional reforms and estimating when they might pay off is hopelessly complex.

But their governments seem to be taking advantage of the bonanza to pay off pending external debt and increase their foreign reserves.

Mr. Kourakis (Greece), referring to question 11, said that 28 persons were currently detained for failure to pay off their contractual debts.

Russia began 2006 by cutting off natural gas exports to Ukraine after its government refused to pay a fourfold increase in the subsidized price.

Truman did not pay off the last of the debts from that venture until 1934, when he did so with the aid of a supporter.

Some of it will be saved. American household saving has shot up from 0 to 5 since the start of the recession, understandably to pay off debt.

But the main question is why anyone should pay to send e mail when they can do so for free. Isn t it unfair to cut off access?

Some of it will be saved. American household saving has shot up from 0 to 5 since the start of the recession, understandably to pay off debt.

We should stress that a positive correlation between a CEO s pay slice and governance problems does not imply that every firm with a high CEO pay slice has governance problems, much less that such firms would necessarily be made better off by lowering it.

Countries like the US and the UK, which are accumulating debt at a record pace, are betting that deficit spending will eventually pay off in a stronger economy.

Most people just pay off their mortgage, make the mandatory contributions to their state or private pension (if they have one), and keep some money for short run contingencies.

In this case, too big to fail financial institutions had perverse incentives if they gambled and succeeded, they walked off with the profits if they lost, the taxpayer would pay.

But cheap credit promotes bad investment and excessive debt, which borrowers often are unable to repay. More fundamentally, investment is a bet that cannot pay off if growth is structurally depressed.

Consider another example military pay versus pay in civilian firms.

No sooner did this strategy pay off with a narrow re election victory one that strengthened Republican control of Congress than the dark realities of Bush s fiscal recklessness started to be recognized.

For example, the state has granted a 4.2 billion loan to the aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska (who held first place on the Forbes list before the crisis) to pay off Western creditors.

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Only a price reduction would create current account surpluses and enable the crisis countries to pay off their foreign debts. It is time for Europe to come to terms with this remorseless truth.

While it provides them an incentive not to pollute, emission allowances offset much of what they would have to pay under a tax system. Some firms can even make money off the deal.

The German government still does not admit that as if France before the euro would have offered up Seine Saint Denis or Corsica to pay off its foreign debts to keep the franc.

I'll pay.

Then they charge double or triple plus a daily rate of 30 to 50 reais (between 15 and 25 dollars) for us to stay at their house, and we work to pay it off.

D. Hazard pay

Polluters Must Pay

Why Pay More?

ii. Equal pay

He stated that he (i.e., the German) was headed off ... seen off ... and ... written off .

And if they habitually decadalized GDP, multiplying the quarterly GDP numbers by 40 instead of four, Greece s debt burden would be 15 . From the standpoint of Greece s ability to pay, such units would be more relevant, since it doesn t have to pay off its debts fully in one year (unless the crisis makes it impossible to refinance current debt).