Word: paybacks
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...There's no denying it's payback for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. You've been bombing people for the last two to four years, so you are going to get a backlash." SARAJ QAZI, Muslim shop owner in Luton, England, on possible reasons for the attack...
...guess: Neville's parents were tortured into madness by Voldemort lieutenant Bellatrix Lestrange. It's payback time. He's not the Chosen One, but he will take down Bellatrix before this is all over...
...Many Zimbabweans believe there are darker reasons for the sweeps, which have included incidents of police brutality and destruction of property. Most of those targeted live in urban areas that overwhelmingly backed the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in parliamentary elections last March. Many believe the arrests are payback for perceived disloyalty and a warning that antigovernment unrest will be met with force. But the arrests may also be a way for Mugabe to make nice with his new patrons in China. As he tries to cope with the world's fastest-shrinking economy, he has developed a Look...
...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...