Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied, "Can't you understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?" In 1945, Soviet soldiers raped 2 million German women as a massive payback for everything the Nazis had done to Russia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was a Soviet army captain in East Prussia in 1945, recorded: "All of us knew very well that if the girls were German, they could be raped and then shot. That was almost a combat distinction...
...played hard last night [a 8-3 loss at Brown], but it was just one of those nights when the puck gets away from you," Cahoon said after the Harvard tie. "[Today's game] certainly gives us some light at the end of the tunnel. Our kids get a payback for hanging in there...
...research last year, the largest annual investment ever made by any country, there is a growing sense that something is wrong with the scientific bargain. AIDS remains incurable, and tuberculosis is returning. The economy is floundering as sophisticated consumer goods all seem to be stamped MADE IN JAPAN. The payback from the space shuttle seems tiny compared with the billions of dollars it burns up. Says Walter Massey, director of the National Science Foundation: "The public hears that we're No. 1 in science, and they want to know why that fact isn't making our lives better...
...payback represents a precipitous fall from the 5 percent rebate of 1991, and is significantly lower than the 4.5 percent figure some company officials had predicted for this year. The 1990 rebate was 5.5 percent, the 1989 rebate was 7.8 percent and the 1988 rebate was 10 percent...
Emphasizing the stagnant economy, Coop president Jeremiah P. Murphy '73, who assumed his post last spring, said students were fortunate to receive any payback...