51.   Foley returned the favor by turning the gavel over to Michel in a symbolic show of respect for the retiring GOP lawmaker.

52.   For the moment, Maier cannot return the favor.

53.   Garnett returned the favor at the end of the third quarter.

54.   Germany has been sniping at Italy for its economic policies, and Italy has returned the favor.

55.   Garciaparra, speaking for the Red Sox past and present, returned the favor.

56.   Golf seemingly was forgotten, and it returned the favor.

57.   Gore, however, returned the favor to Bush in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington, states with large numbers of progressive or liberal Democrats.

58.   Funny thing, but Mayfair returned the favor by beating Calcavecchia later that year in a playoff at Milwaukee.

59.   -GREEK-ECONOMY-WORTH A couple thousand years after Greece supplied a name for the continent, Europe is about to return the favor.

60.   Harold Bloom has said that Shakespeare invented the human, and naturally we try to return the favor by reinventing him.