Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prop. The 240-man M.F.A. seems to have almost as many factions as members, yet all of them, in one way or another, are committed to transforming Portugal into some kind of leftist society. Beyond that, though, the M.F.A. is shrouded in secrecy, and its interminable discussions-sometimes lasting until dawn-are closed to the public. "Any revolution must have a little mysticism," explains Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, a naval commander. "We have ours...
...recovered from the international opprobrium that followed their 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, the major foreign policy crisis of Brezhnev's tenure. It is not often today that Moscow's diplomats have thrown in their faces the challenge, "What about Czechoslovakia?" Somehow, the long, vain American attempt to prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow was a loser in Chile...
...Humanitarian programs, such as unemployment compensation, Social Security and food stamps, prop up purchasing power. This maintains the ability of consumers to buy?and the ability of businessmen to resist price cutting?even while joblessness is rising...
...Repeal a complex of laws, regulations and practices that prop up prices for the benefit of special interests. Economists at President Ford's September summit meetings spotlighted 32 such rigidities. Among them: the Davis-Bacon Act, which compels contractors to pay inflationary wages on federally assisted construction projects; the Jones Act, which forbids shippers to use low-cost foreign vessels to move goods from one U.S. port to another; misnamed fair-trade laws that permit manufacturers to prevent retailers from cutting prices on brand-name products; agricultural "marketing orders" that restrict the supply of oranges, tomatoes and other products...
...deal, however, it is a wholly irrational process that sometimes results in cellmates serving wildly different terms for the same offense. Sentencing is too often "a projection of the value system of the judge," says Columbia's Willard Gaylin. The resulting excessive disparities, he believes, corrode "the basic structural prop of equity that supports our sense of justice." Virtually every expert in the field now believes that the structure and rationale of sentences need extensive overhauling. Certainty is the key word...