An alternative explanation is that the Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo, closed the exchange because he wanted to conserve the U. S. gold stock in order to launch the Federal Reserve System later that year, with enough gold to keep the U. S. at par with the gold standard.

Sitchin's explanation that heat from radioactive decay and a thick atmosphere keep Nibiru warm is absurd and does not address the problem of darkness in deep space.

The only explanation I can give is that I think he is in a funk about the whole position and thought that meeting me might keep the thing open at least ".

A common explanation is that people will always keep the less adultered, less clipped, sweated, less filed, less trimmed coin, and offer the other in the marketplace for the full units for which it is marked.

This explanation is credible only because it is hard to keep track of the circling blade's location and at the same time to associate that with the bullroarer's pitch changes.

Another explanation is that the people of Hinckley used to place buckets on water pumps to keep them clean and prevent the spread of illness, the bucket obviously being the " Tin ' At ".

One explanation was that being satisfied by this he starved himself to death instead of returning home, forcing the citizens of Sparta by oath to keep his laws indefinitely.

A possible explanation for Bede's discretion may be found in his comment that one should not make public accusations against church figures, no matter what their sins ; Bede may have found little good to say about the church in his day and hence preferred to keep silent.

An alternative, or perhaps associated, explanation is that the landlord used clods of earth (" sods ") draped over the beer barrels to keep the beer cool.

People, who are never really left with an explanation as to why, generally fall back on the reason that “ it was their time to go ” and through this somewhat “ explanation ” find themselves able to move on and keep living life.

* James Harris Simons – for explanation: " God gave me a tail to keep off the flies.

The survivors keep this from Claire but she notices them treating her differently and eventually, Shannon Rutherford ( Maggie Grace ) tells her about Ethan's threats when Claire demands an explanation.

Encouraging students to " keep an open mind " about alternatives without offering an alternative scientific explanation implied an invitation to meditate on a religious view, endorsing the religious view a similar way to the disclaimer found to be unconstitutional in the Freiler v. Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education case.

Such computers are more versatile in that they do not need to have their hardware reconfigured for each new program, but can simply be reprogrammed with new in-memory instructions ; they also tend to be simpler to design, in that a relatively simple processor may keep state between successive computations to build up complex procedural results.

Most of these games are designed to keep all players in the game as long as possible, so it is rare to be certain of victory or defeat until relatively late in the game.

Even so, Al-Andalus remained vastly superior to all the northern kingdoms combined in population, economy and military might ; and internal conflict between the Christian kingdoms contributed to keep them relatively harmless.

* The general population prefers to keep its wealth in non-monetary assets or in a relatively stable foreign currency.

To keep the operating system ( relatively ) simple, these machines would not be shared, but would be dedicated to a single user.

Despite these advances, China's telecommunications infrastructure has not been able to keep up with demand and has not spread to the relatively poorer regions.

Environmental SEM instruments place the specimen in a relatively high-pressure chamber where the working distance is short and the electron optical column is differentially pumped to keep vacuum adequately low at the electron gun.

Banking in the turns, called superelevation, allows riders to keep their bikes relatively perpendicular to the surface while riding at speed.

Since Wankel engines operate at a relatively high rotational speed with relatively low torque, propeller aircraft must use a Propeller Speed Reduction Unit ( PSRU ) to keep their propellers within the proper speed range.

And it is relatively rare that a prime minister will have a big enough majority to cancel opposition from smaller parties ; in practice, government in most parliamentary systems is made up of coalitions, and prime ministers must keep the coalitions happy.

Some students and professors decided to stay behind at Williams and were allowed to keep the land, which was at the time relatively worthless.

This simple design is mainly seen in firearms designed around relatively low-power cartridges, where spring tension and the mass of the bolt ( or slide ) are sufficient to keep the bolt forward until chamber pressures have receded to a safe level.

As their relatively dense cell walls cause them to readily sink, planktonic forms in open water usually rely on turbulent mixing of the upper layers by the wind to keep them suspended in sunlit surface waters.

Even with all of this, still relatively few people would come to the little theatre during the summer months, and he struggled to keep it opened.

Although the humidity is relatively high, the constant sea breezes help to keep the air moving.

The plants living in Angola are better protected than the plants in Namibia, owing to the relatively high concentration of land mines in Angola, which keep collectors away.

The last case is relatively easy to deal with ; the other faculty members simply have to keep him from flying higher than the walls.

As typical with the desert in relatively undeveloped areas, there is nothing to keep the heat continuing after the sun sets, so temperatures rapidly drop after sunset.

Frequent, westerly sea breezes keep temperatures relatively mild throughout the year with highs in the middle fifties (~ 15 ° C ) and lows in the lower forties (~ 8 ° C ) during the winter and highs in the lower seventies (~ 22 ° C ) and lows in the lower fifties (~ 13 ° C ) during the summer.

Bill and Camille Cosby are well known and admired residents of the area, though they keep a relatively low profile.

They were also relatively slow to erect – a keep's walls could usually only be raised by a maximum of 12 feet ( 3. 6 metres ) a year, the keep at Scarborough was typical in taking ten years to build.

The Welsh castles were usually built with a relatively short keep, used as living accommodation for princes and nobility, and with distinctive rectangular watch-towers along the walls.

In spite of its high temperature, pressures keep it plastic, and it has a relatively low density.

The objective of Chavigny and Vergennes in Lisbon was to keep Portugal from entering the War of the Austrian Succession on the side of Britain, a task that proved relatively easy as the Portuguese had little interest in joining the war.

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

You may dress it up with any number of accessories or keep it as simple as you choose.

Golf is a simple fantasy game to administer and keep tabs on, since you are concerned only with the scores of your team members without anything else to complicate it.

Variations include " keep it stupid simple ", " keep it short and simple ", " keep it simple sir ", " keep it simple or be stupid ", " keep it simple and stupid ", " keep it simple and straightforward " or " keep it simple and sincere.