Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...papered the world with its dollars, creating plenty of calls on the nation's gold stock. Since 1957, U.S. gold reserves have declined by almost half, to less than $12 billion, and foreign claims on U.S. gold have doubled, to $31.2 billion. If foreigners decided to redeem most of their dollars for gold, the U.S. could not meet its short-term obligations and would have to take drastic measures...
...chronicle, it is no more so than one written with blood and steel on another island at almost the same time. Historians have scanted the Normans' other conquest, and the world has all but forgotten it. This book by a British nobleman, the second Viscount Norwich,* should handsomely redeem both oversights...
...reader, though he may never decide whether or not Diddy left his seat, knows right off what his problem is: alienation. "Diddy merely inhabits his life," the author says. "One can redeem skeletons and abandoned cities as human. But not a lost, dehumanized nature." God knows Diddy tries. He falls in love with the blind girl, marries her in an attempt to help them both...
...speculation is on the exchanges. Acting for a group of well-heeled investors, Chicago Coin Dealer Leonard Stark has been advertising for $ 10 million worth of old-style silver certificates at a 15% premium over their face value. Banking on the fact that the Treasury will continue to redeem them for .77 oz. of silver each until next June, Stark's group stands to make a handsome profit...
...larger roles, Kathryn Walker plays the prostitute Sonya, who will redeem Raskolnikov, with a willowy tenderness and strength. Joel M. Kramer portrays a Ustinovian police magistrate with an ominous keen-mindedness...