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...Capital, along with multimillion-dollar U.S. government contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, the 35-person company should make it. With persistence and that old variable, luck, firms like Medis, Hydrogenics and Nanosys could see a big payback for giving power to the people. The way Lifton sees it, that would be one happy song. --With reporting by Chris Daniels/Toronto, Unmesh Kher/New York and Chris Taylor/San Francisco
...Carloff ’05, a resident of the city of New Haven (yes, he actually lives there), has given up on his futile defense of his hometown. This weekend at the Game, don’t think Carloff’s not going to get a little payback from all the fair Elm City’s detractors. “Sure I know the gang signs you need to flash to avoid getting shot on the way from the Yale Bowl. But, sadly, they’ve just momentarily slipped my mind,” says Carloff...
...appeal to independent voters, but he would also have the support of many military veterans who would normally lean to the Republican Party but have become disaffected with Bush Administration policies. As a retired four-star general with 34 years in the Army, Clark would also represent a symbolic payback for many veterans who have had their loyalty impugned for questioning the motives behind Bush's war in Iraq. DOUG MARTIN Middletown...
Lott insists that his pokes at Bush aren't payback. "Look, I'm here," he told TIME. "And I'm going to try to be helpful. Sometimes that will get me crossed up with the Administration." But he added, "I am sending the signal that they're going to have to deal with me, and they need to keep that in mind, because I can be a problem." The Senator could settle some scores in the fall of next year, when his memoirs are scheduled to be published. The book will include a chapter on Republican Senators...
...charged with "breach of trust," a violation of fiduciary duty. The case has stunned the German business and political worlds and sparked intense speculation about hidden motives. Some see it as an attack on Germany as a place to do business. Others wonder whether it may be the payback for allowing a big German company to be bought by a non-German competitor. And when the Financial Times splashed on its front page Deutsche Bank's threat to move its headquarters to London - a report from which it later retreated - bankers in Frankfurt openly wondered whether it wasn...