Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that the Clinton description was more neutral, whereas the language to describe Bush's action was "in a highly political vein." What Fleischer ignores is that in the same 1993 newscast he sites, ABC ran an entire separate story on the Clinton decision built around how it was political payback to his pro-choice backers. If describing the presidential moves in a political vein is a sin, then ABC's longer treatment of Clinton's political action was more faulty, not the one about President Bush...
...have a home-equity line of credit with a payback period of 21/2 to 3 years or more, consider switching some or all of your balance to a fixed-rate home-equity loan. "The average rate for a HELOC last summer was 4.7%, and it's 5.8% now," says McBride. "It could be 7.5% 18 months from now." Locking in a rate of 6.5% now, on average, might make sense...
BUSH OWES RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES nothing. Just the fact that a believing conservative is in the White House is our payback. Nothing else is needed...
...will play. Still the Eagles sit atop the lackluster National Football Conference. It is the Patriots who have answered the American Football Conference’s rigorous challenge in pounding the Indianapolis Colts and the vaunted Manning, 20-3, and creaming the Steelers 41-27—payback for their destruction of the Patriots’ NFL-longest 21-game winning streak...
Harrigan and his Democratic allies blame a G.O.P. cabal backed by business interests for trying to slow CalPERS's shareholder activism. "This is payback by the big corporate special interests who fight our reform efforts and their ally Governor Schwarzenegger," asserts Democrat Phil Angelides, the state treasurer and a CalPERS board member. The Governor, state Republicans and business groups all deny conspiring to oust Harrigan. But his demise shows just how much harder Schwarzenegger's rise has made it for even the state's most powerful Democrats to throw their weight around...