Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prices will continue to rise less and less controllably as long as businessmen, union leaders and consumers take it for granted that they can always count on the Government to intervene to prop up jobs, incomes and profit. Reflation now, they say, might produce a momentary upturn, but it would only lead to another round of price rises, another consumer panic, another slowdown in business investment-and a more devastating bust. They worry that...
...Scapino, seems incapable of an error in pace, tone, stance or phrasing. He is a meticulous sculptor of actorscape-the distance, closeness, stillness and motion with which players relate to one another onstage. This company is not called the Royal Shakespeare for nothing: to the last man, woman and prop, it is most royal. ·T.E.K...
...nearly a decade the United States has bombed the countryside of Vietnam back into the stone age. Now it owes the people of Vietnam far more than it appropriates to Thieu. But the funds which the U.S. spends to prop up Thieu's illegitimate government in South Vietnam should be rechanneled to the legitimate government: the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Only when U.S. funds are utilized to rebuild the countryside of Vietnam and to bring a united people the opportunity for free democratic elections, should the American public allow its government to continue spending millions of dollars in Vietnam...
...transplanted many passages straight from the diary into books, yet they remain most striking in their original context. She often wrote on the spur of the moment--in the Paris metro, on an Acapulco beach--wherever she could prop a notebook, with an unusual felicity for sifting and sorting incidents barely finished. Most of us don't venture beyond the word "nothing" in summing up our day, but Anais reports her contacts and conversations with dauntless agility. Like Miller, she has discovered that unabashed observers fascinate people because they've learned to wade daringly into ideas and only skim...
...these changes aim to keep alive next year the capital-goods investment boom that is now the economy's principal prop. Many economists are not sure that the changes would make much difference. Fed Chairman Burns, for example, told a joint economic subcommittee last week that because the corporate income tax rate would be increased by the surcharge at the same,. time, "the effects tof the investment incentives] are not easy to judge...