Word: repaid
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...credit, Harvard didn’t lose interest in Steve after his injury,” Keating says. “That loyalty is going to be repaid...
...coming of sound was immediately and immensely popular. Today, although films shown on the giant IMAX screens make money and although computer-made animated features have been spanking the butts of traditional cartoons, there's no conclusive evidence that the billions it would cost to go digital would be repaid by a box-office surge. "Our research shows that the audience generally isn't going to pay more and isn't going to go more," Hall says. "So there's no financial model that creates an incentive for the exhibitor to make this investment...
...struggle with Jordan's King Abdullah II. Their duel began immediately after Abdullah ascended the throne in 1999, when he freed the Jordanian militant from prison in a general amnesty. Zarqawi, 39, had been jailed in the early 1990s on sedition charges after joining an Islamic fundamentalist group. He repaid Abdullah's royal gesture by starting a relentless terrorism campaign against Jordanian monarchy. In turn, Abdullah has stood firm against Islamic extremism and sought to bring Zarqawi to justice, cooperating ever more closely with the Bush administration's War on Terrorism...
...brilliance it has been good for little more than bad hangovers, missed class, and missed opportunities. The night is a clever harlot tempting eager students with her promise of unlimited extra time to makeup what we miss during the day. Unfortunately she takes more than she receives. Hours are repaid in full whether in class accompanied by a pool of drool in your notebook, or at the computer, where zoning-out encourages such productive behavior as watching videos of monkeys kickboxing. Fortunately, by senior year in college, some of us begin to realize the foolishness of our ways in grand...
...Just to see her get off like that after I went through all that was really quite sickening,” said Christmas, whom Vaghar has already repaid...