Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That would be ambitious and expensive -- up to $150 billion. But the payback would be great. Such a specific, long-term goal would invigorate NASA. It would revive public interest in science, providing new pep for a sector of the educational system that has become disturbingly weak. It would stimulate innovation in everything from materials science to computers to communications. It would create jobs. And, least tangible but perhaps most important, it would add enormously to the nation's prestige...
...payback time," junior Roger Berry exulted. "We finally got to celebrate on our own courts against Yale...
...says his movies are about the "five essential themes: death, liberty, equality, beauty and, of course, love." Scanning Dark Habits (1983), one finds not love but revenge. It is your basic anticlerical Latin comedy: Reform School Girls set in a convent. The film can be seen as Almodovar's payback for a Catholic education "full of hypocrisy -- you can't learn by being terrorized." But the convent's mother superior isn't kidding when she tells the chanteuse, "My only sin is to love you too much," for that is the only sin and salvation of any Almodovar heroine...
...only East bloc nation facing hard economic times. Rumania, where living standards are even lower than in Poland, appears likely to begin suspending payments on $2.2 billion worth of debt to the World Bank to protest that institution's policy of adding the costs of currency fluctuations to its payback schedule. Meanwhile, authorities announced that leaders of last month's highly unusual protest against the repressive regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu, as well as the management of the factory where the demonstration started, had been fired from their jobs and face prosecution...
After crushing Dartmouth in straight sets, it was payback time. Yale had blown out the Crimson in the regular season. Now, if Harvard had its way, the Elis would be on the losing...