Still, the bad debt that was amassed by consumers and companies in recent years hasn't been fully purged, even with the help of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
"It's not necessarily that I'm saving more money, but I'm paying off some of the debts that were amassed during the last three years, just trying to make headway," Ms. Manley said.
In a telephone interview last week, Mr. Lehrman said, "The debts in the American banking system that were amassed simply would not have been feasible if you had direct convertibility of currency into gold".
"The people in the U.S. Army who are responsible for issuing these solicitations are, almost to a man, completely unaware of the many volumes of data that were amassed on these systems during the cold war," he said.
The first act of a new year is usually attempting to remove that pulsating tractor wheel of pudding and booze that's amassed around your waist over the past fortnight.
In 1999, during Mr. McCain's first race for president, he gave the public an extraordinary look at his medical history — 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records that were amassed as part of a United States Navy project to gauge the health of former prisoners of war.
Ms. Edgar wrote in her complaint that she was particularly troubled by the fact that even as the foundation was failing to pay out its grants, the Museum of Modern Art, where Mr. Miller has been a trustee since 2003, presented an exhibition of 354 works from a collection of about 2,500 by 650 artists that was amassed by Mr. Miller on behalf of the foundation from 2003 to 2005.
Much of the art collection that was amassed as a result of these numerous exhibitions went to Kuwait's National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, the main government body set up in 1973 that oversees the cultural scene.
Typically, the school hosts election year debates with student speakers, but Madsen said with all the negativity that's amassed around the contest between Clinton and Trump, the history department thought it would be more instructive for the student body to hear from speakers like Schiff than to risk lapsing into name calling.
As Sober notes: "Given how central the thesis of common ancestry is to evolutionary reasoning, one might expect there to be a vast literature in which the evidence for that claim is amassed.
Realism holds that there is a real social world but that our knowledge of it is amassed and interpreted (sometimes partially and/or imperfectly) via our senses and brains, filtered through our language, culture and past experience.
