Some industry executives said corporations have shied away from sponsoring such campaigns because there is no immediate payoff.

Educators realized that to motivate these students an approach with a more immediate payoff was necessary.

Too many people become discouraged if they don't see an immediate payoff from networking.

They are willing to spend more time and money developing a promising technology without an immediate payoff.

When you go to work for the Devil, think in terms of immediate payoffs; his pension plan is weak.

Government drives innovation through investments where the immediate payoff is not there for the private sector.

Parents were impatient for an immediate payoff from the partnership with a for-profit company, the nation's first for an entire school district.

Acting out and a search for immediate payoff are encouraged.

Given the difficulty Williams had already encountered, he decided to pursue other projects with a more immediate payoff.

But the most immediate payoff is for amputees who suffer phantom limb sensations.