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...view, consists of improving the profitability of currencies as investment purchases (not the speculative return on hot money exchanged in the money marker). The actual material not reflected in inflated money concerns them only peripherally, as a limiting factor. The simple device of "holding the line" on wages can augment rates of return on currency (in this case the dollar) and abort speculative runs against the endangered currency. In other words, the only available way for banking groups to stabilize the exchange rates (prices) of any commodity, including the currency commodity, is to increase its "power" over actual material wealth...
...Yale Repertory's theater was once a church, and Brustein has exploited its dark interior to augment the play's supernatural dimension-even to the otiose point of having important speeches delivered from the pulpit. The electronic sound effects that thump and mutter portentously reflect not so much Newness as good, old gothic hokum. But these mechanical excesses hardly detract from a vibrant updating of the quintessential symbol of love 'em and leave 'em. The presentation deserves not to be left in New Haven...
Claiming that the University is not neutral with respect to society, the charter states that. "The HTFU shall defend and augment those aspects of the University which constitute its being a center of humanistic learning and shall actively oppose those aspects which contribute to what is oppressive in our society...
Last January, Massachusetts became the first Episcopal diocese to be headed by a black bishop, the Right Rev. John M. Burgess. And 800,000 black Roman Catholics (only 1.7% of the nation's Catholics) have successfully won a national secretariat, which, among other demands, will seek activities to augment the sparse number of black priests...
Despite his skill, legal fees were scarce in the early Depression. To augment them, he turned to pulp writing, finally giving up the law when money began to roll in from Perry Mason. Gardner's concern for the underdog endured long after he achieved literary success. In 1948, he founded the Court of Last Resort, a private organization to aid prisoners whom he believed had been unjustly confined. He gave frequent testimony against capital punishment and often championed conservation projects against powerful interests. He was an enthusiastic sportsman who stopped hunting with a gun in favor...