Word: redeemability
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...reality, and so to say that a particular play is especially concerned with the subject isn't to say very much at all. Realizing, then, that somewhere near a thousand students have already recognized the immediate inanity of my initial proposition, perhaps a few, extremely tentative assertions can redeem the case...
...agreement to drop the proposed penalties, Feather gave his "solemn pledge" that the unions would do something themselves about the stoppages. Such strikes account for 95% of all work stoppages in Britain, and last year cost the country 4,500,000 man-days. Whether Feather will be able to redeem his pledge is uncertain. In August, 1,300 blast-furnacemen at a steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, ignored his efforts to end a three-week walkout that hammered steel output to a 17-month...
...ultimate aim is to reverse the steady growth of relief rolls. In the end, this would save money as well as redeem wasted lives. But to get started, the extra welfare cost to Washington would be $2.5 billion. For its $4.7 billion-a-year investment under the present system, however, the Federal Government has little to show...
Held As Hostage. Wall Street analysts are more worried about the glamour stocks of yesterday than about the blue chips. Mutual funds have been selling, and in some cases there has been distress selling inspired by the fear that customers will redeem their fund shares for cash. Even those inveterate bulls, the managers of go-go funds, are unloading stocks, and the hedge funds have been hard hit. Some money is being shifted out of stocks into bonds. People who buy stocks on margin have to pay 11% interest, but those who buy bonds collect as much as 8% interest...
...Soul Singer James Brown, a B & B director. The company is managed by Powell and Lawyer Donald Warden; they recruited Brown because they needed a folk hero to appeal to blacks. B & B has signed up about 700 groceries, barbershops, gas stations and even auto dealerships to offer and redeem the stamps in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. Customers get four stamps for each dollar spent, and when they have collected a book of 1,200 stamps, they are entitled to $3 in free goods or services. Merchants, who pay about 1½? for each four stamps...