Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investors and Barings' staff, may not be condemned by working people, who still see capitalism and its excesses as a great evil. The young man's apparent arrogance in handling huge amounts of other people's money not only shows a reckless attitude but is also possibly a payback to capitalism for past sins against working-class people. Whatever the motivation, it is vital for banks and financial institutions to find ways to protect themselves against such crusaders. Claus Faye-Thilesen Drammen, Norway COMPANIES, IN THEIR AVARICE, ARE IGNORING age and experience in favor of ego and ambition. And look...
...guaranteed all workers an earnings-related benefit. F.D.R., the architect of the system, also knew that spreading the benefits around to everyone would shield Social Security from political attack. He funded it through a separate payroll tax to keep it closely identified in the minds of voters as a payback for their working years. That way, he once said, "no damn politician can ever scrap my Social Security program...
...Originally ran Monday, February 25, 1991). After being stunned in overtime in Providence, R.I., two weeks ago, the Brown's women's basketball team was looking for a little payback Saturday night at the Briggs Cage. But Harvard had two things in mind...
...each case, predictably enough, it's payback time. Mr. Payback gets on the job, and with the help of the computer-literate Gwen and her pet geese--whose raison d'etre in the film is totally inexplicable --exacts revenge upon the villain responsible for his client's humiliation. The final scene always involves the wronged individual confronting the wrongdoer (as in life itself, the wrongdoer is always a white male) and meting out to him his just desserts, the exact nature of which are determined by audience participation...
This is not to say that interactive movies can't be fun. "Mr. Payback" is mildly and mindlessly entertaining. The plots are all the same and all cheesily trite, but because of the nature of the enterprise, that's not really the point...