Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...league has gotten significantly better in the past few years,” co-captain John Traugott said. “We weren’t up to the task to compete with them this time. Hopefully, we’ll use these next couple of months to redeem ourselves...
...depiction of Nango, The Thirteen Steps resembles Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic Ikiru, which tells the story of a cancer-stricken bureaucrat who tries to redeem his stuck-in-the-mud existence by building a neighborhood playground. Like Ikiru's Kanji Watanabe, Nango is in a race against time to make amends for a lifetime of dutiful work by which he now feels poisoned. But compared to Kurosawa's characters, these protagonists are less deftly rendered. Nango's fanatical devotion to the case makes him the personification of a guilty conscience rather than a flesh and blood character...
...music selection was a departure from Friday’s onslaught of “Three Blind Mice” and “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.” But even timely Offspring and Queen selections could not redeem the fact that a Chumbawumba song was played twice...
...This attitude will save the party from being overwhelmed by its presently more outspoken opponents. The timing is perfect and the Democrats must seize the opportunity. Congresswoman Pelosi’s charisma, coupled with her tenacity, will no doubt be the change needed to help the Democrats redeem their direction and generate a lively and aggressive comeback...
...book business, the indies are also banding together. Their American Booksellers Association established national gift certificates so that customers or their friends and family could redeem them at any member shop (of which there are 1,200, about half the nation's indies). The independents have an e-commerce site called BookSense.com to go up against Amazon.com They display best-seller lists compiled from indie shops nationwide and benefit from a $600,000 ad budget, used for promotions in such publications as the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly...