Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreigners wished to cash in. But as foreigners piled up almost $50 billion in U.S. currency, while the U.S. gold stock melted to $10 billion, that pledge became hollow. Nixon gave it the coup de grâce on Aug. 15 by decreeing that the U.S. would no longer redeem foreign-held dollars for gold...
...only flaw in programming was the dull Bach Cantata No. 51. Not even a magnificent trumpet obbligato part could redeem the initial aria. Joan Heller, the soprano soloist,' has a beautiful voice remarkable for its evenness. Her diction was good and one could only wish for more variation in dynamics. It was a mistake to use a harpsichord against the full string body: Gerald Moshell pushed the instrument as much as possible and all it produced was a distracting non-tonal jangle. With smaller forces, though, it was quite adequate; and the continuo playing included some appropriate ritards...
...dollar dilemma has been the world's primary economic problem since President Nixon on Aug. 15 declared that the U.S. would no longer redeem foreign-held dollars with gold. In the frenetic currency trading that followed, the mark has floated up 12.2% in value against the dollar from its last official rate, the yen 11.6%, the British pound 4.1%. The U.S. seeks to push some foreign-currency values up even more, and make the new rates official; it originally aimed for foreign revaluations averaging 12% to 15%. The Europeans and Japanese have demanded that the U.S. formally devalue...
...ultimate failure of the film is too serious for the good things in it to redeem. It is unthinkable that at some moment the destiny of Lear would not move one to tears. That moment never comes in this film...
...found this very unsatisfying. My name for the night was MIT. My interesting fact was that I was a metallurgy major. This interesting fact always led to a brief apology from my interviewer for being a liberal arts major. In an attempt to redeem liberal arts, my interviewer told me the suspense-filled story of "The Tiger and the Lady." Then I was told that the story of the tiger and the lady had the impact or even substance of talking about X-ray analysis. I regret that the acute importance of cocktail chatter had to be shown...