Word: vis
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...case between World War II and the late 1960s, "we must tie the value of the dollar to a fixed measure, such as gold, so that a dollar today will be worth a dollar tomorrow." He also argues that using the gold standard to fix the dollar's value vis-a-vis other currencies would boost world trade...
...still in its nascent state--some 131 years since the end of the Civil War, mind you--a tragic yet necessary event without which neither I nor Rev. Gomes would be arguing these matters here today at Harvard University. Precisely when that mature stage of a redeeming process vis-a-vis whites' maiming of black souls through American slavocracy will be fulfilled, is anyone's guess. My intuition tells me that it certainly has not been reached in our era any more than a mature stage of a redeeming process vis-a-vis Germany's genocidal violation of Jewish souls...
...knee being a matter far too subtle for a mere movie reviewer to contemplate, he is left with broader, possibly less relevant, judgments to pass. Chief among them is this: Braveheart is too much, too late. Gibson, who directs himself in Randall Wallace's screenplay, starts with certain disadvantages vis-e-vis Rob Roy: Sir Walter Scott never wrote a novel about William Wallace, and no one named a cocktail after him either. Got a real name-recognition problem here. Got a real length problem too. Braveheart runs almost three hours, and though it's full of incident, including several...
Where do the top footwear tastemakers of the '90s stand vis-e-vis Earth Shoes? Manolo Blahnik, the pre-eminent European shoe designer, is an unabashed Earth Shoe fan: "It was the first shoe, [along] with the Jesus sandals, to make a social statement!" American shoe designer Kenneth Cole is another fan: "What was originally an antifashion statement 25 years ago has today become fashionable. They are a relaxed and comfortable alternative to other fashionable footwear...
...issue on Cyberspace [Spring 1995]. Your sense of a subject sorely desired and needed by the people was a work of right-on thinking. My understanding of what is going on in the computer cyber, superhighway world took a quantum leap. Efforts thus far to explain the complicated subject, vis-a-vis bits and pieces, at times confused me even further...