Word: saviors
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...club and a new park, but nothing yet has rescued its old working class. Throughout its upheavals, Lowell has often been steered by the church and, in at least one neighborhood, by Father Spagnolia. He arrived at St. Patrick's parish in 1998 and was quickly regarded as a savior as he revived the city's most famous church by raising money, renovating the Gothic building, reaching out to the Asian community, bolstering the food-voucher program and comforting the poor...
Meet Choi Ju Hee, savior of the South Korean economy. Armed with two credit cards and an allowance from her parents, she spends at least $600 a month on clothes, drinking with friends and a serious cell-phone habit (her father once cut off her home phone for a month to teach her a lesson on the cost of things). Her most prized possession: a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo loafers. What she badly wants: a pair of Prada sneakers. On a recent shopping expedition, she eyes a white cotton DKNY skirt. Her mother steps in, telling...
...movies and other goodies like the next soccer World Cup. He is in hock to the banks for about ?6 billion ($5.2 billion), and lots of loans are coming due these days. When Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-American ruler of a globe-spanning media empire, offered himself as a savior, Schröder sent out the signal: "No foreigners!" The word was spread that the Chancellor preferred a "national solution" - as he did in the case of John Malone, an American whose Liberty Media wanted to invest big time in the German cable industry but was frozen...
Against the same team on Saturday night, it was the Crimson’s savior...
...recent purchase has brought criticism that rivals the condemnations streaming forth from Watertown. The Arsenal, a former military base that once required $100 million in toxic waste clean-up before it could be converted into offices, was viewed as the fiscal savior of the mostly residential suburb. The millions of dollars in taxable property it represented were already being considered for school improvements, library renovations and road repairs. But under an 1830 Massachusetts law creating special privileges for non-profits, Harvard, as the new owner, is not required to pay any taxes on the property...