Word: redeeming
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...Marty has a locked-room alibi - a pal had bolted the lush?s apartment door from the outside just before the murder was committed - and, as played by Duryea, is a sympathetic soul looking to redeem a promising life pissed away. He?s also falling in love with Catherine. So he joins forces with her as a pianist-singer duo at the nightclub of menacing Marko (Peter Lorre), who knew the dead woman. All this amateur sleuthing wins the initial contempt of detective Broderick Crawford, who snarls to Marty, ?You just gotta play detective. Do I go around playin? piano...
...coach…. It was just a lack of games [Harvard has a 29-game regular season]. I feel you have to be playing more games to develop. On Saturday night, you might have an off game, but then you come back on Tuesday and you can redeem yourself. In certain college programs, you have to wait another week...
...public agency set up after the Asian financial crisis to dispose of bad corporate debt, recently assumed $5.48 billion in delinquent accounts from shaky card companies. KAMCO plans to write off up to 30% of the principal, extend the payment periods to a maximum of eight years and redeem the credit records of debtors. Some card companies have started their own debt-forgiveness programs; these have the unintended consequence of creating an incentive for borrowers to stall for a bailout rather than pay up. "Some debtors are telling our phone operators that they're not going to pay their debt...
...worldwide Muslim outrage over the invasion to swell its ranks. And the escalating insurgency confronting U.S. troops in Iraq - punctuated by regular suicide terror attacks reminiscent of those committed by al Qaeda - may be amplifying Bin Laden's message that the path of jihad can defeat the U.S. and redeem Arab honor...
...rather than give Schires a chance to redeem himself in the second quarter, as he successfully has twice in as many starts, in trudged Fitzpatrick on the first play of the next frame...