Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Government bias busters may have a chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the civil rights groups. A number of federal agencies are investigating possible job discrimination at some of the largest U.S. corporations. General Motors, General Electric, Ford and Sears already have been named as targets by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other cases are expected in such basic industries as copper and aluminum...
BRITAIN changed governments in March largely because Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath failed miserably to redeem his 1970 campaign promise that he would "cut prices at a stroke." Heath had some success with wage-price controls, but in 1972 his government embarked upon...
...million to banks, $200 million of which is covered by the Government loan guarantee, and $100 million to the Defense Department as reimbursement for C-5A cost overruns, due in ten annual installments beginning in 1974. In addition, it must keep up interest payments on, and perhaps eventually redeem, $138 million in convertible debentures. Interest payments on all its varied debts are running around $80 million a year...
...Houses helped provide a 'critical mass' of people potentially alert to conversation about books and ideas, and to redeem for adult faculty an undergraduate body previously regarded as largely indifferent to them," Riesman recalls...
...YORK--The Harvard fencing team, still smarting from an embarrassing last-place finish in the Ivy League, arrived here yesterday hoping to redeem itself somewhat with a respectable showing in the IFA Eastern fencing Championships which open today...