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There is even greater irony in the reports that management will atone for its sins with a $176 million payment to black employees--all of which will come directly from the pockets of those now doubly victimized stockholders.
Perhaps to atone for all the repeats we've endured in the past month, this week the networks are wheeling out new episodes of The X Files , The Simpsons , Everybody Loves Raymond , King of the Hill , The King of Queens , Law & Order , 3rd Rock , Ally McBeal , Melrose Place , Homicide , NYPD Blue . ...
Reed feels passionately that white evangelicals must atone for their opposition to the civil-rights movement.)
' The term is used largely in the Christian sense of Jesus dying to atone for the sins of man; his death reconciled, “made one,” God and man.
8 million can't be disappointing, and the press is wailing about "disappointing" grosses to atone for overhyping the film.