Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Massachusetts, the win was payback for the Crimson's thrilling 1-0 upset of the Minute-women last year at Ohiri Field, a win which established the Crimson as a power on the regional scene...
...Rider grabbed his gun and went down there for a payback, a revenge killing. And then he faded back into his normal, upper-middle-class life...
...most of all, they remember being upstaged on their own turf, and now the Harvard upperclassmen hope that memory can be channeled into payback...
...through the restaurant's plate-glass window. A few startled customers ran to help the driver. To their horror, a muscular young man in a green shirt sprang from behind the wheel with a semiautomatic pistol and began firing. "This is what Bell County did to me . . . This is payback day!" he shouted as he made his way through the crowd, pumping bullets in every direction...
That may be less than complete success, but considering the horrible blow these children suffered before birth, it is remarkable that so many can be helped so much. The studies suggest that early intervention can give the children a fighting chance of leading reasonably normal lives. Such a payback seems more than enough to justify a far greater investment in treatment and rehabilitation. Today's crack kids may be a troubled generation, but they do not have to be a lost generation -- unless society abandons them...