O Prophet, say to your wives In case you desire the life and pomp of this world, come, I will provide you handsomely, and let you go with a grace.

O Prophet, say to your wives In case you desire the life and pomp of this world, come, I will provide you handsomely, and let you go with a grace.

The US made Pakistan a top priority Cold War ally. As a result, many unsavory aspects of Pakistan s conduct went unchallenged by America, while its military and intelligence services were handsomely resourced.

O ye who believe! If ye wed believing women and divorce them before ye have touched them, then there is no period that ye should reckon. But content them and release them handsomely.

O ye who believe! If ye wed believing women and divorce them before ye have touched them, then there is no period that ye should reckon. But content them and release them handsomely.

In doing so, they typically inflame passions against religious and ethnic minorities. For regimes that represent economic elites (and are often corrupt to the core), it is a ploy that pays off handsomely at the polls.

Their success has paid off handsomely. The top executives at 14 leading financial firms received cash compensation (as salary, bonus, and or stock options exercised) totaling roughly 2.5 billion in 2000 2008 with five individuals alone receiving 2 billion.

In a Ponzi scheme, early investors are handsomely rewarded at the expense of latecomers until the supply of participants is exhausted. Such practices, illegal as practiced by Bernard Madoff, are functionally equivalent to what happens during an asset price bubble.

Still, Iraq has vast oil and natural gas reserves, to which all of the major oil companies wanted access. Everyone stood to benefit the companies would profit handsomely, while Iraq would gain new technology and vast sums to rebuild the country s devastated infrastructure.

As a result, Europeans, facing uncertain environmental consequences while receiving none of the revenues, tend to oppose fracking nearby. In the US, by contrast, local residents benefit handsomely from being able to sell their ownership rights to gas companies a strong counter balance to fears of environmental costs.

It might be expensive to compensate all potential losers, but we must put our money where our mouth is if a reform is certain to pay off handsomely, it will pay for the buy offs, and more. Governments can borrow what they need to pay out now, and service this debt as reforms yield benefits.

Turkey was instrumental in bringing about an end to Lebanon s factional strife, and its overtures to Syria undertaken despite warnings from the United States have paid off handsomely. Turkey was able not only to defuse the international tensions surrounding its Arab neighbor, but also to engineer the start of direct talks between Syria and Israel.