Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PAYBACK TIME (2/22/01): Press reports link lobbying by Hugh Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brother, to successful pardons for well-connected drug trafficker Carlos Vignali and mail-order scam merchant Glenn Braswell. Rodham was paid a reported $400,000 (including a $200,000 "success fee") for his work. Bill and Hillary express "disappointment" and ask Hugh to return the money. He says he will...
...Fife Symington sent his application directly to the White House three weeks before Clinton left office. In 1997 the Republican was convicted of fraud and forced out of office. The verdict was overturned, but prosecutors have been weighing whether to retry the case. Some Arizonans think the pardon was payback: Symington saved Clinton from drowning at a '60s beach party...
THEODORE OLSON Payback time. Defended W.'s election before Supreme Court, now tapped as Solicitor General...
...life, like a cop's, is not romantic in these films. It's a job, a routine, like ditch-digging but with less action and a higher body count. Mostly, you wait, in a bad mood, to shoot or be shot. You hang around for the inevitable comeuppance, payback, bad luck, betrayal...
...McCain so adamant about causing trouble for the new guy in town? The Senator says he's merely doing what's right. Bush thinks he's still sore about being trounced during the primaries and that this is payback. On the night Gore conceded, McCain made the rounds of the TV networks touting his reform plan--and irking the Bush team. McCain brushes off their sniping. "I campaigned on it, and I promised millions of Americans," he says. "If we don't do anything the first few weeks, we never will. If we passed a bipartisan bill, it would...