After atoning for the past merger wave's excesses with cost cuts and sales of unrelated businesses, many big companies have healthy balance sheets.

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Is the Beeb quietly atoning for the days when two of its now grandees sneered publicly at Gateshead as the very symbol of provincial, proletarian ignorance?

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But for talking like that, Campanaro, I suspect, will have lots of atoning to do, and not just on Yom Kippur, in order to get elected.

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What we know about the plot so far: a stand-in doctor mistakenly tells a patient he has 90 minutes left to live and spends the rest of the film trying to chase him down as the patient zips around New York atoning for his past mistakes.

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If you take no stock in the main Christian festival of Easter, or if you are a non-Jew who has no interest in atoning in the fall, you have an all-American fighting chance of being able to ignore these events, or of being only briefly subjected to parking restrictions in Manhattan.

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