Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...under 50%. That land grab initially provoked fears that a possible peace agreement was in danger of being wrecked. But by week's end, the Croat-Muslim federation had put the brakes on its offensive, and suddenly the Clinton Administration appeared tantalizingly close to a diplomatic triumph that could redeem its reputation both at home and abroad...
Potts had seemed to redeem himself last April, when he expertly handled the FBI's investigation of the Oklahoma City blast. But last week he came under renewed scrutiny after another FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, admitted destroying documents collected during an internal investigation of the Ruby Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists...
...College in Florida--most students enrolled with the goals of transferring elsewhere. The college offered only a two-year program, leading to an Associate of Arts degree. The faculty of 12 was partly expatriate, the student body of 100 wholly international. My friends were there for many reasons (to redeem their high school performances, to kill time until the Fall.) It was there because I didn't want to deal with the GCE A Levels, which was the necessary pre-college exam for applicants form British-based education systems...
...squad, it was a chance to redeem itself for a poor performance in horrible weather two weeks ago at Brown. There, the thinclads--suffering through snow and frigid temperatures--were outrun by Dartmouth and the host Bears. Yale 70 Harvard 93 Yale 45 Harvard...
Sometimes, talented actors can redeem a poorly conceived movie from complete failure--no such luck this time. The characters prove so stereotypical and shallow that even earnest attempts from usually likable actors like Bullock and Pullman fall flat...