Most people would accept payment when their employer says we want to give you this sum of money.

I think many people end up taking buyout offers quickly because $100,000 (or some other lump-sum payment) can seem like a great deal of money, only to end up realizing after the fact that it wasn't enough to justify leaving. People need to avoid the wide-eyed feeling of I'm winning the lottery and make sure they think about if I am 50 I still got decades ahead of me.

When you consider the sum total of the negative attitude toward my government, it makes a lot of sense for me to exit the scene if Liberia is to live.

In essence, my concept was to offer an exchange to Moldova -- we would offer them a large single sum payment in cash in exchange for getting this equipment permanently off the market.

There is not now, nor has there ever been, any question about his performance.

Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.