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But (the argument goes) the 1970s inflation taught investors the brutal lesson that there is no safety in bonds: Your investment can evaporate if interest rates rise, or if inflation devalues the bonds' purchasing power.
Calling such public figures charismatic devalues the word and strips it of meaning (meaninglessness certainly triumphs when writers see charisma in humor or music).
That there are Irish-Americans who do these things in no way devalues the efforts of others to connect with their past.
We are not a single-minded community that values or devalues Clinton's private adulterous conduct.
It turns government suggestions into veiled threats and devalues true voluntarism.