Word: paybacks
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...cast Clinton into a tiny subset of American Presidents from which he will never be paroled, even pending good behavior. He became the third Commander in Chief to face the ignominy of an official impeachment investigation--not as bad as Nixon; worse than Johnson, whose impeachment was pure political payback by his cranky congressional opposition. It will forever be the asterisk after Clinton's name, a game-show question in the year 2020: Name the third American President to endure an impeachment inquiry...
When the Harvard field hockey team last met the University of Massachusetts (UMass) 12 years ago, the Minutewomen marched out of Cambridge with a 2-1 overtime victory. This should have been Harvard's payback, a victory by Coach Sue Caples's squad over her alma mater...
...this boardroom tell-all generating more buzz than a Yahoo IPO? Surely everybody already suspects that the Internet bull market is a shell game. But who would have guessed that one of the minor players, having failed to find money dumb enough to make him rich, would get his payback with so deft a pen? Nobody comes off clean in this vengeful little book, not the venomous heirs of Robert Maxwell nor the philistine publishers of Windows magazine nor the executives at Time Inc. (where the author worked briefly as a consultant). "I'm a writer," Wolff tells his business...
...week after thrashing the Tigers, theCrimson claimed a share of the league title with a1-0 victory at Dartmouth, and seven days later,Harvard secured its third straight outright Ivycrown by downing Brown, 2-1. It was back to NCAAsfor the Crimson, and it was time for somelong-awaited payback...
...most of the financing, nearly half a million dollars, for the petition drive that put 226 on the ballot. Then California Governor Pete Wilson signed on. For Wilson, who as mayor of San Diego regularly battled public-employee unions in the 1970s, Prop. 226 also provided the satisfaction of payback to the teachers' union. Over the years, the C.T.A. has squared off against him on school vouchers, statewide-testing standards and class-size reduction. "The most urgent need for 226 was to combat the ability of the teachers' union to kill education reform," he says...