It's quite another to debase the foundations of a great democracy.
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Williams's work doesn't debase itself with the qualifications of winners and losers.
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He apparently couldn't rouse or debase himself to a proper news conference.
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And most young men do not join college fraternities that debase women.
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Trump will continue to debase and devalue the presidency with his lies.
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Yet cities with deep, systemic problems still debase themselves to get tech jobs.
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Most people I know are aware of the ways I debase myself online.
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That would show you are stilldiffident about your artand would also debase you.
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If you thought never-Trump conservatives couldn&apost debase themselves any further, think again.
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Unscrupulous politicians who have done much to debase the Maldives' politics are already returning.
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I think it's very easy historically for central banks and governments to debase money.
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Those trying to maintain a civilisational mindset must wilfully debase big portions of it.
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As such, the widespread use of the term threatens to debase the profession irretrievably.
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Governments can always debase their currencies, as high inflation in Argentina and Turkey shows.
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It is more likely to further debase the country's financial standing and its credibility.
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It's a test to see who around him will debase themselves to repeat it blindly.
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Central banks around the world attempted to debase their currencies in order to boost exports.
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This is a coordinated plan to debase Meghan's standing, borne of pure jealousy and spite.
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Loyalty does not, and should not, require Priebus to debase himself by supporting Donald Trump.
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Trump continues, on an almost daily basis, to dishonor the presidency and debase civic life.
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First, valorize work as the ticket out of poverty, and debase caregiving as not work.
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They debase the grave power of impeachment and disdain the solemn responsibility that power entails.
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In retrospect, the audience member who asked the boxers-or-briefs question was on to something: She stood for a new cultural need to debase political candidates that eventually would take us to the point where political candidates debase themselves, without the public's assistance.
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Is that not the definition of cult: the keenness to debase yourself in service of it?
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They debase traditional forms of public debate, lament some, spreading far and wide with little context.
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They argue that, unlike the government, a private provider might be disinclined to debase its currency.
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Central banks around the world are also trying to debase their currencies in order to boost exports.
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Currency wars are where countries try to aggressively debase their currencies in the hope of boosting exports.
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Just when we think he can't possibly debase the office of the presidency any more, he does.
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That Republican leaders are cheering him only serves to define deviancy down and debase our political norms.
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When works rely on his music, they too often debase their own artistic motives and achieve something kitschy.
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For another, as the author rightly points out, the president's critics debase themselves when they stoop to his level.
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The soldiers who fight, even when they fight for a good cause, debase themselves to serve the greater good.
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If entering politics is thought to debase women, reclaiming "nasty woman" as a badge of honor is a repudiation.
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If the public cannot trust our information, or we debase our forecaster's warnings and products, that specific danger arises.
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"Giving up one's privilege in order to debase oneself is an act that you don't have to do," Mr. Pope.
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Which key Republicans would be willing to debase themselves as faithfully as Nunes did if Obamacare repeal is a dead letter?
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Watching capital inadvertently debase the world spanning military colossus that keeps it in power is kinda funny, I think it's good.
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Putin has made no bones about his intentions: He intends to humiliate the U.S and debase the coin of American leadership.
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TO CALL Britain's referendum on Brexit a great act of democracy is both to describe it and to debase the word "democracy".
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Carrots — glazed, roasted, however you decide to debase them — are a fun dish to bring to a gathering of people you loathe.
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When you're willing to debase yourself to this extent — and act so hard while you're doing it — you pretty much can't lose.
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Sorry, but earth's climate crisis is going to have to get a little worse before I'm willing to debase myself in something unflattering.
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Upper class Romans may have enjoyed practicing boxing as amateurs, but they would never debase themselves by participating in a sport in public.
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We honor their memory by saying their names; we debase their brutal, shameful treatment by claiming to be them to glibly score rhetorical points.
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The strong dollar policy was seen as a way to assure investors that Washington would not intervene in exchange markets to debase the currency.
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Choosing a governor with a reputation for monetary tightness could help a Labour government avoid giving investors the impression that it might debase the currency.
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But now we're seeing John Kelly debase himself and be dishonest, and we're seeing H.R. McMaster become much more political than many of his predecessors.
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The Founding Fathers knew their monetary history, and knew the proclivity of governments to debase coinage until it contained paltry amounts of gold or silver.
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Mr. Trump repeatedly and provocatively reminded his supporters of that endorsement on Thursday, saying Mr. Romney had been prepared to debase himself to obtain it.
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They'll need to debase their voice and amp up the sensationalism of their headlines or risk their users straying an inch over to someone else.
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To buoy his ego, they debase themselves, and what you heard them doing in that meeting wasn't just swallowing their pride but choking on it.
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What is new and chilling is witnessing senior Republican senators and congressmen debase themselves to play along with Trump in the name of party loyalty.
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The yen cannot continue to rise as the Bank of Japan policymakers "debase" the value of their currency and as the Fed raises rates, he added.
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But what's also increasingly clear is that powerful and at times terrible capability can be turned around to debase power itself — when authorities themselves become abusers.
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We should all root for a comeuppance for those investors, who have helped to debase the entrepreneurial system that is so important to the global economy.
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When we debase bigotry into an exercise of Republicans versus Democrats, we make it just another political issue that numbs the minds of too many people.
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But the NBA is certainly not the first American corporation to debase itself in pursuit of Chinese money, and blaming James for that decision is silly.
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The Chamberlain serves as a mouthpiece for several of the series' biggest ideas, like the creatures' tendency to debase each other when their own status is threatened.
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And we can go further than that by challenging a global status quo in which men remain in charge and can debase women with vile language without consequence.
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But it's important to distinguish between the kinds of Trump offenses that debase Ryan, Republicans, and the American ideal, and those that threaten the underpinnings of American democracy.
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Medieval rulers apparently used alchemists to debase their own coinage and didn't want anyone else to be able to do the same - which is why it was illegal.
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After plunging in the face of crisis, commodity prices rose again in 2010-12, and people like Paul Ryan berated Bernanke for policies that would "debase" the dollar.
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Trump is currently surrounded by people like Barr and Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, who are willing to debase their offices to indulge Trump's abuse of power.
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"Instead of investigating the crime that's at-hand we interrogate the victim and go after her character and pick her apart and openly defile and debase her," Miller explained.
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Mostly we see Mr. Nye still educating, debating climate-change deniers and Ken Ham, whose Kentucky tourist attractions the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter pervert and debase evolutionary science.
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Steve-O was always the most extreme—the one most willing to put himself in harm's way, to debase himself, cover himself in shit, piss, vomit, and the works.
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This filing further proves that anyone can say whatever they want in a lawsuit for maximum shock value, to defame and debase, without having to offer any facts or reality.
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Most notably, Paul Ryan, who gets his ideas about monetary policy from Ayn Rand novels, berated Bernanke, claiming that his policies would debase the dollar and lead to runaway inflation.
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"These people really debase the Senate," he said of Democrats during a campaign rally soon after the Senate voted, largely along party lines, to confirm the Supreme Court's newest justice.
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Sure. But he's also going to metaphorically sacrifice one of his children and has also asked his beloved daughter to completely debase herself in the name of keeping the company alive.
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Whenever government tries to monopolize the issuance of money, and forces that money on the people through legal tender laws, the temptation to debase that money is too great to withstand.
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My second guess is that it's someone who came to possess large numbers of coins easily, who is jilted, and wants to debase community members by making them beg for coins.
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I get the fact that Congressman Devin Nunes and Senator Lindsey Graham have a contest going over who can debase themselves in public the most by defending indefensible actions by Trump.
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The fact is there is a condition in some Americans, including our president, that runs much deeper than simple "racism," a condition that causes them to debase people of color with impunity.
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"Media would be wise to stop hyper-coverage of Trump's tweets — they distract, distort and debase," Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, said in a Twitter post on Tuesday.
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But the Trump administration is not normal; the Republican Party has become the Party of Trump, with a disturbing number of members willing to debase themselves to curry the favor of Dear Leader.
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Rather than push contestants to debase each other, bakers will often offer to help their struggling competitors when time is running short—and perhaps competitor isn't the right word so much as comrade.
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And they definitely shouldn't defer to important and/or rich people on policy: compare Janet Yellen's macroeconomic track record with that of the multiple billionaires who warned that Bernanke would debase the dollar.
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" DeBase said the firm sees "execution mishaps" from GE Chairman and CEO Larry Culp's strategy review as a key risk moving forward, as well as outside factors like an economic downturn or "geopolitical instability.
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The car it ships with will include a steering wheel — but only in case the owner opts to debase themselves by actually driving it in the style of the plebeians of the prior age.
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Some of his goldbug-like comments about central banks that "debase the currency" and the evils of fractional-reserve banking led early cyber-libertarian bitcoin enthusiasts to claim him as one of their own.
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" Mocking and savaging political opponents have been "not only normalized but monetized," Gerson added, and he stated the obvious, which needed stating nonetheless: "If words can inspire, then they can also incite or debase.
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It's also still running its nationwide search for a second headquarters that has mostly entailed seeing which city governments are willing to debase themselves the most in the form of jaw-dropping sweetheart tax deals.
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Mr Nakamoto argued that central banks cannot be trusted not to debase their currencies by printing money, so he set a hard limit of 21m for the number of bitcoin that could ever be mined.
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But to write, as The Economist has recently, of "over two-thirds", "over 150 fellows of the Royal Society" or "over a year" is to take a pure preposition and debase it with metaphorical usage.
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"He knows his tactics are bound to fail, but pursues them to debase his Republican colleagues under false pretenses and endear himself to the base as the only authentic conservative," said a Republican policy expert.
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But maybe investors should be worried, at least a bit, by the spectacle of a president who would rather appoint hacks and debase the Fed's integrity than admit that his policies aren't working as promised.
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Sex worker Sydney Leathers hasn't come across any deepfakes based on her porn scenes, but she is intimately familiar with what it feels like to have her work used to harass and debase another woman.
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And it's to the enduring shame of the Republican Party that they have been willing to debase our political standards to the old Ukrainian level just when Ukrainians are trying to rise to our former level.
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If plenty of people out there are willing to be seen in public holding giant teddy bears, then why shouldn't the rest of us debase ourselves a little on Valentine's Day in order to get free stuff?
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But that served to debase the currency, causing inflation to rise and the value of the Sudanese pound against other currencies to plummet - in turn pushing up the cost of subsidies and widening the deficit even further.
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What Trump has done to denigrate, denounce, defile and debase Latinos in this country is having an irrevocable effect, not just on support from Latinos for Trump but support from Latinos for the Republican Party in general.
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But in 2016, the person who's done the most to debase public discourse has been the Republican nominee himself: a man whose leaked-tape controversy forced major newspapers to print the words "grab 'em by the pussy" unexpurgated.
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In this case, a speech — about the ugly necessity for black people to debase themselves in a white man's world — that is usually spoken to the other characters on stage is hurled like a fireball into the audience.
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Consider the Trump administration's controversial immigration policy at the Mexican border: its flaws are manifest, but comparisons to the Nazi treatment of European Jews or the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II debase our moral vocabulary.
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It's now five years since he accused Ben Bernanke of pursuing inflationary policies that would "debase" the dollar; if the rising dollar and slumping inflation that followed has ever given him pause, he has shown no sign of it.
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But while republicans may talk more about the working class these days, the tax cuts are a multi-trillion dollar reminder that the GOP is still fully committed to stooping to absolutely shameless levels to debase themselves before their wealthy masters.
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He told the audience that cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, the underlying technology behind bitcoin, would "empower [the populist] movement, empower companies, [and] empower governments to get away from central banks that debase your currency and makes slave wages," according to Cointelegraph.
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So, the economy has succeeded because the Fed followed the policies that Ryan himself denounced as inflationary measures that would "debase the currency," not to mention part of a corrupt conspiracy to bail out fiscal policy (remember, John Taylor co-authored that one).
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Thus when Bloomberg tried, four years later, to track down economists who signed the infamous open letter to Ben Bernanke insisting that quantitative easing would "debase the dollar," it couldn't find a single person to admit that the original warning was wrong.
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When you basically move dramatically away from what we call the regular order, when you almost debase your own institutions — you're gonna find an opening for somebody who's never been a part of it and who can offer you very, very simplistic answers.
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Beneath the surface, Blippi and Steezy Grossman share two traits: a willingness to debase themselves — be it clownish antics or taking a literal dump — for entertainment, and a methodical, calculated effort to use social media and its algorithms to reach as many eyeballs as possible.
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She added that she was not worried by the possibility of an international "currency war," despite concerns raised by economists and politicians over the last few years that countries were competing to debase their currencies, partly in a bid to make exports more competitive.
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Although he is explicit that this does not amount to a "conspiracy theory," Watson's declaration would perhaps be the first time in history in which whiffs of Trotskyism were not meant to defame a broader political movement and debase the quality of public debate.
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That a distinguished federal appellate judge felt the need to debase himself with obvious untruths just moments after his nomination to the highest court in the land portends an attempt by President Trump to dominate the judiciary, bringing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis.
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" ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees, on Twitter: "Over the long term, any currency based on fiat will fail relative to hard assets (Bitcoin, gold, etc.) Politicians debase currency as their modus operandi, and thus if Libra maintains fiat backing it tend toward zero long term.
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And I think at some point, perhaps soon, there will be a time when inflation, despite the growth-suppressive policies that have been placed in the developed world, that inflation may blow through these targets and surprise everyone, because it's actually not hard to debase a currency.
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As if things weren't already QVC enough, The Jim Bakker Show also sells cheap jewelry, forcing the man who used to travel the world in luxury meeting with all manner of celebrities to debase himself by pretending he gives a solitary fuck about tacky cross bracelets.
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While the Fed continues to justify flooding the market with cheap "reserve notes" based on the theory that it must supply these notes in order to support asset prices, the overall effect has been to debase the currency and prolong the pain of the American people.
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For much of Donald Trump's astonishing rise toward the Republican Presidential nomination, his main contributions to the foreign-policy debate have been to debase it, by insulting Mexico's hundred and twenty million citizens and the one and a half billion adherents of the Islamic faith worldwide.
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Since 2013, the show has been a brilliant and scathing indictment of late capitalism, taking a scalpel to the blight of corporate consumerism and the way it drives small businesses to debase themselves in a long and futile attempt to claw their way out of the shrinking middle class.
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He lauded the disastrous tenure of Jean-Claude Trichet at the European Central Bank, and eventually left the Fed to join a chorus of outside conservative critics who lambasted Bernanke and Janet Yellen for pursuing loose money policies that would allegedly debase the dollar and send prices spiraling upward (didn't happen).
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"While we have long had our own concerns over the tendency of central bankers to debase paper currency by printing more and more of it, the proliferation of hundreds of virtual currencies seems far more likely to be a craze," Klarman wrote in a recent investor letter obtained by CNBC.
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The problem is that practically all of this -- including Floyd's fast-talking, anything-for-a-buck agent (Utkarsh Ambudkar) -- feels recycled from other sources, perhaps most notably the 1987 movie "Hollywood Shuffle," in which Robert Townsend played a young performer grappling with whether to debase himself in pursuit of steady acting work.
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" Ralf Jaeger, interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said: "We will not tolerate organized groups of men from North Africa that debase defenseless women with brazen sexual attacks," and added: "We owe that to women as well as to those North African refugees who want to live peacefully among us.
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And Time magazine decides that now is a good time to devote its cover to dire prophecies about looming US insolvency, with the lead article by James Grant — signatory of the infamous 2010 letter warning Ben Bernanke that his policies would cause inflation and debase the dollar, crusader for a return to the gold standard.
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Rock's photos adorn the covers of Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power and Queen's Queen II, and he was there when the glam scene that he'd shot in such ecstasy started to harden and debase itself, as well as when Motley Crue signalled their own turn from underground sex clubs to coke-fueled strip joints.
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As Political scientist Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute told Vox's Andrew Prokop: When you basically move dramatically away from what we call the regular order, when you almost debase your own institutions — you're gonna find an opening for somebody who's never been a part of it and who can offer you very, very simplistic answers.
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However, his signature verbal depredations, which debase the public square and reduce serious discussion of issues and problems to a festival of insults, one-line zingers and lectern histrionics, will have to be abandoned if he becomes the nominee and faces a serious and well-schooled Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Reporter Mac Reynolds in the Vancouver Sun on August 31, 1957, said about Presley's show: It is a frightening thing for a man to watch his women debase themselves... [girls who] screamed, and quivered, and shut their eyes and reached out their hands to him as for salvation ...It's hardly original, but if any daughter of mine broke out of the woodshed tonight to see Elvis Presley in Empire Stadium, I'd kick her teeth in.
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One reason is, that's almost twice the reach federal rules allow one company to control (the standard federally mandated limit is 39 percent); another reason is, Sinclair is a brazen conservative propaganda outlet that forces good reporters to debase themselves; on top of that, Pai, the FCC's chairman, managed to land himself under investigation for allegedly improper coordination with the broadcasting company after he revived the very loophole that would have put Sinclair in two-thirds of Americans' living rooms.
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I'm sure you are familiar, but it goes like this: Meme becomes somewhat popular on Twitter or Reddit or a body-builder forum; bloggers talk about the meme because it is their job; national morning shows try to understand the meme because they've been told to start treating the internet like a real thing; local businesses participate in the meme because maybe they'll be on TV for doing so; nightly news programs drive irrational panic about the meme because this is the purpose of the nightly news; bloggers are obligated to comment further, with needlessly detailed explanation, because now the posts will get oodles of search traffic; the subculture from which the meme originally sprung splits into two factions: people willing to debase themselves by making lowest common denominator versions of the joke that will spread quickly and keep them in the spotlight, and people who will double down on encrypting the meme with in-jokes and croissant-intricate layers of irony and sarcasm that make it indecipherable to an outside world that will, nevertheless, attempt to decipher it.
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