Word: paybacks
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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...
...race of the meet in the 200-yard freestyle relay, though. Harvard had lost all evening to the Jayhawks’ relays, but all the Crimson had to do was not be disqualified in order to clinch the win. But after being beaten three times already, Harvard wanted some payback and came back to win the relay over the Kansas team...
...irrelevant rulemaking, the E.U. would easily take gold. Last week, two attempts to revamp and reassert regulations were in theory endorsed but in practice ignored. E.U. budget Commissioner Michaele Schreyer had proposed scrapping the U.K.'s 20-year-old rebate from Brussels, worth an average $5.7 billion annually. The payback was negotiated in 1984 by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, when Britain was one of the club's poorest members. The U.K. has since enjoyed unparalleled economic growth - and newer, poorer E.U. members...