Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week after thrashing the Tigers, theCrimson claimed a share of the league title with a1-0 victory at Dartmouth, and seven days later,Harvard secured its third straight outright Ivycrown by downing Brown, 2-1. It was back to NCAAsfor the Crimson, and it was time for somelong-awaited payback...
...most of the financing, nearly half a million dollars, for the petition drive that put 226 on the ballot. Then California Governor Pete Wilson signed on. For Wilson, who as mayor of San Diego regularly battled public-employee unions in the 1970s, Prop. 226 also provided the satisfaction of payback to the teachers' union. Over the years, the C.T.A. has squared off against him on school vouchers, statewide-testing standards and class-size reduction. "The most urgent need for 226 was to combat the ability of the teachers' union to kill education reform," he says...
...Wings also got some payback on an old antagonist: Nikolai Khabibulin...
...North Dakota last year, a one-two punch from nature that editor Mike Jacobs calls "Hell and High Water." But the 52-strong staff stuck together, wrote the paper in an elementary school, printed it out of Minnesota and handed it out for free. This Tuesday, they got their payback: A Pulitzer for Public Service journalism, one of the highest awards a newspaper can receive. News editor Jeff Beach took it in stride, remembering "that special time during the flood when [the paper] was being snapped up at all the refugee centers... I think that meant more than the prize...
...pretty. Jones' lawyers believe that Bennett has waged a nasty p.r. war against them and that it's time for payback. They will probably quote at length from Clinton's deposition, in which he is said to have finally admitted having sex (just once) with Gennifer Flowers. On the merits, Jones is alleging two kinds of sexual harassment. First, she says the President's proposition "impose[d] a hostile work environment" on her. The idea behind such a claim is that sexual advances and physical touching--if unwanted and "severe or pervasive" enough--are discriminatory. Given these general terms, just...