Word: paybacks
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...research last year, the largest annual investment ever made by any country, there is a growing sense that something is wrong with the scientific bargain. AIDS remains incurable, and tuberculosis is returning. The economy is floundering as sophisticated consumer goods all seem to be stamped MADE IN JAPAN. The payback from the space shuttle seems tiny compared with the billions of dollars it burns up. Says Walter Massey, director of the National Science Foundation: "The public hears that we're No. 1 in science, and they want to know why that fact isn't making our lives better...
...payback represents a precipitous fall from the 5 percent rebate of 1991, and is significantly lower than the 4.5 percent figure some company officials had predicted for this year. The 1990 rebate was 5.5 percent, the 1989 rebate was 7.8 percent and the 1988 rebate was 10 percent...
Emphasizing the stagnant economy, Coop president Jeremiah P. Murphy '73, who assumed his post last spring, said students were fortunate to receive any payback...
...Massachusetts, the win was payback for the Crimson's thrilling 1-0 upset of the Minute-women last year at Ohiri Field, a win which established the Crimson as a power on the regional scene...
...Rider grabbed his gun and went down there for a payback, a revenge killing. And then he faded back into his normal, upper-middle-class life...