There are also tangible political dividends to such an approach for the Mayor, who is expected to seek re-election next year.

But it also yielded political dividends long before the results were known.

That television campaign, which cost $35 million or more, paid huge political dividends.

The policy change has no monetary cost to the Government and may pay some political dividends for the Clinton Administration.

Mr. Clinton's performance on crime seems to have paid political dividends.

He began an ethnological study of Vodou that later paid enormous political dividends.

Republicans expect the law to pay political dividends.

This would pay great political dividends later in his career.

But in recent years, some congressmen have seen political dividends in taking on the gun lobby.

"Just think what dividends, both political and economic, such a discussion could deliver for our country and its whole population," the newspaper said.