Word: crutches
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...back the government was reportedly hashed out over a week's worth of marathon negotiations following Bank of America's repayment last week of $45 billion in government assistance. Citi did not want to be one of the few remaining big banks still using the government's crutch.(See the worst business deals...
...Harvard’s already tense environment. The BlackBerry or iPhone can be a useful tool when coordinating events with friends and can definitely increase productivity. Even I may consider acquiring one sooner or later. But if I ever feel like it’s becoming more of a crutch than an aid, I’ll stick to my good old Samsung Gravity...
...than they helped. Often times during a dialogue, one of the characters would lean on a banister and look at the audience as they spoke instead of at the character with whom they were talking. Often this device was distracting, and it seemed like the banister acted as a crutch for the actors to not have to look at each other at meaningful points in the dialogue, taking away from what could have been very emotionally charged moments...
...immersed in a new place or culture. However, Broadwater says that the scene is not meant as a direct criticism of religion. “I think that the play deals a lot with thinking for yourself, and I think that sometimes, some people can lean on the crutch of religion in lieu of thinking for themselves. I don’t think that religion is bad, but I think that blindly following dogma is something that Sartre would have taken issue with...
...False Crutch I object to the implications made in the Essay "The People's Game" [March 16]. The author parrots propaganda in claiming that Pakistan "was born as ... a refuge for a persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India." Never in about 800 years since the first arrival of Muslims in India till independence did Hindus actually dominate. In all this time much of the region was controlled by Muslim rulers and then by the British. Such misconceptions feed into the false binaries that fundamentalists in Pakistan need to survive. Vishv Malhotra, Blackmans Bay, Australia...