Word: repaid
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...many good wishes was one from Lady Bird Johnson: "It must give you enormous satisfaction to look back on what you have achieved, which is nothing less than a Magna Carta of opportunity for the handicapped. We are all very much your debtor in a way that cannot be repaid...
Soviet penury in the area was soon repaid with poor political performance. A trend to the right set in. Nasser began mending his fences with the U.S. A moderate Prime Minister, Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, took over in Iraq. Yemen's little war cooled off, and even in steaming Syria the moderate wing of the socialist Baath Party seized the initiative from the extremists. So Moscow's new men, concluding that Nikita might not have been all wrong, have started the rubles flowing again...
Such other industries as transportation, communication, fishing and agriculture will be repaid what they are taxed. Service industries, from barbers to bankers, will get no refund at all. Though the scheme will milk $882 million out of the British economy during the fiscal year ending next April, the government still expects its $25.7 billion budget to run $800 million...
...opprobrious epithets that Mark Twain hurled his way. He was quite capable of snubbing friends on the street -and equally capable of showing up just at dinnertime to borrow two quarts of whisky and a room to finish them in while knocking out a short story. "If he ever repaid a loan," grumbled Twain, who was himself touched for several thousand dollars, "the incident failed to pass into history...
...Kuwait's immense oil royalties have created more than 1,000 native millionaires and made the country a big source of funds for most of the Middle East. Kuwait has given other Arab states at least $1 billion in grants and loans, most of which will never be repaid...