A DECADE ago the collapse of Filanbanco, Ecuador's largest bank, was the signal for a wrenching economic collapse that saw the country lose its currency (it adopted the dollar) and at least a million people, who left in search of jobs.
"Coming out" now may be a clichéd term, but as the "We Are Atheism" project has shown, it hasn't entirely lost its currency.
Unsurprisingly enough given its overuse, the cliche eventually lost its currency.
As noted child psychologist David Elkind argues in his essay in this issue of Greater Good, play has lost its currency among many educators, parents, and policy makers these days.
Similarly, another signifier of nerd status — knowing obscure facts about favorite subjects — has also lost its currency.
But since 9/11, the facile comparison between the nation's first M.B.A. president and a detached chairman of the board has lost its currency.
The program is devoted to the unoriginal notion that a majority of songs written by the great American songwriters celebrated true love, a secular faith that rapidly lost its currency during the rock era.
It was a smart choice: full-strength, undiluted modernism, which went in and out of style in the last century, is beginning to lose its currency in this one.
The N.A.A.C.P. has over the years lost its currency among younger, more educated African-Americans, whose sense of opportunity is such that they are less convinced of their need for a traditional civil rights organization (let alone one with the word "colored" in its title).
The publicity materials for "The Future Is Not What It Was," directed by Jay Stull, describe it as being set "in a world not unlike our own, where society's moral compasses have been broken, the church has lost its currency, and no one seems to have any answers".
