boomerang
noun
a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by Australian Aboriginal peoples as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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It is boomeranging on all of us 126 million Japan residents.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 15, 2011