Word: redeemability
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...match was really important to us as a team--more than rankings," Harvard Co-Captain Kathy Mulvehal said. "We lost to Yale, a match we shouldn't have lost, and B.C. killed Yale. We really wanted to win this match to redeem ourselves...
...really wanted to redeem myself for those walks in the first game," Forman said. "They really turned the game around. I didn't want to walk anyone, so I tried to bear down, get them to hit some ground balls and just throw strikes...
Most of the songs fail to get off the ground, with dull lyrics and unexceptional voices. Fancy footwork by the cast and snappy musical scores redeem a few numbers, such as "Police Don't Eat the Daisies" and "Soldier Soul"--the greatest twisting and shaking of the night...
UNFORTUNATELY, the sets and the stars are not entirely enough to redeem two-and-a-half hours of still-born lines. If you get as drunk as the patrons of Cafe Ole and really enjoy jiggling foam, maybe you won't notice...
Only one specific proposal in the Bush speech inspired a fusillade of partisan attacks: the President's efforts to redeem his campaign pledge to slash the tax rate on capital gains from 33% to 15%. Like Dukakis in last year's campaign, congressional Democrats lambaste the idea as an affront to fairness. "I'm not going to tell the wage earners in Chicago that they should pay a higher tax rate than stockbrokers," thunders House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. There is evidence to support this equity argument: currently, 70% of all capital gains are claimed by taxpayers...