Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games obviously does affect food prices-but not nearly so much as the present outcry would suggest. A Department of Agriculture study showed that prices in stamp-giving stores averaged only three-fifths of 1% higher than in non-stamp stores; the study also observed that "consumers who redeem the stamps can more than recoup the price differential." While that might be a disputable generalization, it does seem certain that when compared with such factors as higher wages and shrinking farm surpluses, trading stamps have been insignificant in the 4% rise in food prices over the last twelve months...
Burdened with a 15-9 loss to the Jumbos of Tufts last week, Harvard's freshman football team will attempt to redeem itself at Holy Cross today...
From a ponderous opening in which Dr. Thomas's son shoots himself with an unloaded pistol, Ghost springs into a series of wonderfully funny monologues which, for the first act and much of the second, more than redeem a rather uninteresting plot. The last act is again ponderous as it attempts to make minimal order of the entanglements already created...
...million it would raise-two-thirds to be allotted to education -would redeem his campaign promises to bring New Jersey up to date. Last week, in the most bruising defeat of his career, the Governor learned that his lawmakers would sooner change the name of the state to Old Jersey than approve new taxes...
...take this delightful Renaissance canzona and brutally massacre it requires real malevolence. Not only were the choirs not together, but one of the trumpets unceasingly insisted on shlurping every single high note. The HRO's next two concerts include works by Vivaldi and Bach. Let us hope they redeem themselves by handling them as well as they handled the Ravel...