Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bank in the country weren't bailed out. Had the world economy melted down and more giant institutions failed, even strong firms like Goldman would have gone under. In July, Goldman acknowledged this, more or less, when it graciously - yes, graciously - paid a full price of $1.1 billion to redeem stock-purchase warrants it gave the government for lending it $10 billion of TARP money. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
...scary,” even. He had messed with the wrong person, the wrong situation, the wrong set of “sharks.” For a moment in time, Darkhawk-2000 was a fish. The experience was a turning point, he says. The only way to redeem himself, he realized in the days after the fiasco, was to give the game the respect that it demanded...
...strong fourth quarter could not redeem a sluggish start, as the Crimson dropped its second contest...
...ideas of what Harvard was going to be like, and that it was going to redeem all the time I had wasted getting into Harvard,” he says. “And then you get there, and it’s a lot of the same shit as the rest of the world. A lot of the same kind of class divisions, and a lot of people who just want to drink beer and go work at investment banks...
Granted, this appears in the beginning of the story, with plenty of time for Zuckerberg to redeem himself in a classic Hollywood feel-good about-face. But it never really materializes. The Zuckerberg we get here?...