Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapid pace of seemingly uncontrollable events, President Carter dispatched Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to the Middle East for the third time in ten months to use whatever influence he might have to bring the feuding Arabs together. One of Vance's main goals was to help prop up Sadat's plan for a pre-Geneva conference on the Middle East that is scheduled to begin at the Mena House hotel near Cairo this week. Originally, Sadat had envisioned the gathering as a meeting ground, where all interested parties would settle at least some of the procedural problems...
Along with the prospects of a tax cut, the other prop for business confidence is Federal Reserve Chairman Burns. Under Burns' management, it is true, the money supply for the past year has bounced up and down erratically, and has generally increased at a rate that most conservative monetarists consider to be too inflationary. Nevertheless, many businessmen fear that if Burns is not reappointed, the money spigot may be turned on even more fully. Says Gabriel Hauge, chairman of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.: "The key to a long life for this expansion is a sustainable...
...Church St. at 7:30 p.m. Allen Ginsberg--Passim at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Michael Cooney--Joy of Movement Center at 8 p.m. Spider John Koerner--Back Room at The Idler at 8 p.m. Bill Fravis and George Tocci--Sword-in-the-Stone Coffeehouse at 9:15 p.m. Prop. Anonymous--Stone Soup Gallery...
...film's final ten minutes are a minor scandal. After wasting an audience's time for two hours, the movie unleashes a gory, cathartic fantasy sequence in which the hero relives the horrors of his Viet Nam combat. Film makers who exploit the tragedy of war to prop up an otherwise listless picture should be ashamed of themselves...
...DATE, HARVARD has paid little more than lip service to the social issues involved in the maintenance of its $1.4 billion portfolio. In 1972, when President Bok explained why the University would not meet student demands and sell its stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation, then a leading financial prop of the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola, he argued it is not normally wrong to hold stock in companies engaged in repressive activities "in view of the constructive actions a shareholder can take...