Word: paybacks
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...Green jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in last season's match-up, stunning Harvard en route to its 2-1 victory. The loss cost the Crimson the Ivy championship and left the players--both freshman and underclassmen alike--thirsting for payback...
...robber goes, the three roommates are more curious than angry, and are glad to hear that the police have arrested their chief suspect, Andre Stuckey, 20. Still, they wouldn't mind a little payback. As Rubin says, "I hope, by some twist of fate, that the robber who did this has to face the Fly-Bys in an intramural Ultimate competition. We'll take him down...
...immoral bordering on treasonous to raid the Social Security trust fund for other government purposes (though all that means is borrowing the money with interest), why is it not even controversial to raid general revenues to shore up Social Security (with no interest or even payback of principle...
...PAYBACK TIME If you're looking forward to more leisure time once the kids leave for college, think again. Several new studies, noting that an increasing number of adults are caring for their aging parents, project that by 2005, fully 37% of U.S. workers will be more occupied with elder care than with child rearing. And it's not just families who are feeling the pinch. Estimates say employees who miss work in order to care for parents are already costing U.S. business as much as $29 billion a year in lost productivity...
Movies may glamorize mayhem while serving as a fantasy safety valve. A steady diet of megaviolence may coarsen the young psyche--but some films may instruct it. Heathers and Natural Born Killers are crystal-clear satires on psychopathy, and The Basketball Diaries is a mordant portrait of drug addiction. Payback is a grimly synoptic parody of all gangster films. In three weeks, 15 million people have seen The Matrix and not gone berserk. And Carrie 2 is a crappy remake of a 1976 hit that led to no murders...