Word: cheapening
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Internationally, the world financial system was shaken by the determined U.S. campaign to cheapen the dollar against foreign money. The campaign climaxed three weeks ago in a sweeping realignment of currency values that cuts the dollar down to size and makes U.S. products less costly-and more competitive-in world markets. The new deal creates the opportunity for crafting a new, more realistic and more flexible system to finance global trade and investment...
...upon meeting, so the two are shown greeting each other with a kiss. Gilliatt is aware of the aesthetic difficulty of filming sex. "Fucking is obviously what you feel not what you see, and nameless backs fucking and hands clenched when a person is coming" are techniques Gilliatt feels cheapen and confuse "a liberty the director has, which he might as well use properly...
...concentration camp" at Kennedy Stadium, but people who were said it was pretty brutal. Yet to call it a concentration camp is to evoke Dachau and Auschwitz, but the government is not yet there, and to evoke images as if it were is to cheapen language, to cry "wolf." And the left should let the destruction of sense in language remain with Nixon; let him call fighting a war "ensuring the peace" and an invasion an "incursion" and let us say what we mean so plainly and truthfully that people will know the difference...
...concentration camp" at Kennedy Stadium, but people who were said it was pretty brutal. Yet to call it a concentration camps is to evoke Dachau and Auschwitz, but the government is not yet there, and to evoke images as if it were is to cheapen language, to cry "wolf." And the left should let the destruction of sense in language remain with Nixon; let him call fighting a war "ensuring the peace" and an invasion an "incursion" and let us say what we mean so plainly and truthfully that people will know the difference...
...Those against the motion, however, answered that it was not possible for students to do effective organizing within the 14-day period suggested by the proposals. They said that any rescheduling would "cheapen" Harvard's academic standards and force the Faculty into a partisan political stand as well...