Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...We’re excited and upbeat—we’re ready to go,” Jay said. “The exciting thing is [that] you get to go right back out there and feel like you can redeem yourself...
Corker was co-president of the Mather House Committee when the aforementioned Mather Lather took place, but he was able to redeem this event’s unfortunate consequences on Harvard social life by helping to convince the CLC to change the party hours. Along with Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, and Mather House Master Sandra Nadaff, he presented a proposal last month addressing the reforms that the Commission demanded if party hours were to be regained. All potential rooms where campus-wide parties would take place needed...
...refused to. Ordinary politicians need to be liked; Bush finds the hostility of his critics reassuring. Challengers run as outsiders, promising change; it's an extraordinary politician who tries this while holding the title Leader of the Free World. Ordinary Presidents have made mistakes and then sought to redeem themselves by admitting them; when Bush was told by some fellow Republicans that his fate depended on confessing his errors, he blew them...
...boutique in her hometown of Brea, Calif., went out of business a few years ago, her husband Norman--perplexed about what to give her for Christmas--decided that about 20 of the $50 bank-issued gift cards sold at their neighborhood mall would be the ideal gift; she could redeem them at any store in the shopping center. But nearly six months later, when Arlene tried to buy a $20.50 blouse with $2.50 in cash plus a gift card with $18 of unspent credit, the sales clerk said it couldn't be done, citing a fine-print rule...
That left the Harvard squad hoping to redeem itself the next day by translating statistical success into a ‘W’ against the NCAA’s upper echelon...