Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news about Moore's novel is that it contains a splendid portrait of a priest, whose line of talk demonstrates that the author still has an infallible ear for the speech of the clerics who educated him back in Belfast. The good father in Cold Heaven serves to redeem Moore's cast of otherwise lackluster characters. His name is Monsignor Cassidy. Bless him, he is the only Irishman...
...American Society for Industrial Security (A.S.I.S.), a Virginia-based association of company security officials, with help from district attorneys in New York and Chicago, was trying to catch people who fraudulently redeem coupons for shampoo, dog food and other products without buying the goods. No one knows the total take from this sort of nickel-and-dime thievery, but industry rumors range as high as $350 million every year. A.S.I.S. reasoned that since Essent does not exist, only thieves would turn in the chits. To maintain secrecy, it did not tell the publishers that the ad was phony...
...need our memory to redeem your past, and our imagination to complete your future...
...cool mountain air, Keynes and White agreed to create a system of fixed exchange rates. The established currency values could be adjusted, but in practice that rarely happened. The value of the dollar was set in terms of gold at $35 per oz. Moreover, the U.S. promised to redeem all dollars held by foreign governments with gold at the $35-per-oz. price. The value of all other currencies was set in terms of the dollar, and countries were obliged to maintain the value of their currencies. If the French franc suddenly dropped below its assigned price in dollars...
...Russia's greatest poets from Pushkin to Pasternak is obviously intended to heighten the moral tone of this melodrama of murderers, scoundrels and sadistic sex. As Thomas well knows, poets have historically served as a symbol of redemption in Russia. But merely dropping their names will not redeem Ararat for readers who expected more from the author of The White Hotel. -By Patricia Blake