Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...granting a rate increase to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week, the Federal Communications Commission took an action that will help to buttress the U.S. stock market, prop up capital spending and hold down interest charges. When AT&T rates and profits rise, many things happen in the broader realm of business. First, AT&T stock gets a lift; because it is the most widely held issue of all-3,750,000 investors directly own 549 million shares-a rise in "telephone" tends to give a psychological impetus to the whole market. Second, the company can more easily draw upon...
...Crimson drew first blood in the morning battle. Prop Tom Lapinski, capping a long drive down to the Yale end, broke over the goal line for a four-point try. An attempted tow-point conversion failed...
...thought, was good for the world, and it worked out that way-for a time. Disraeli was determined to maintain a balance of power by preventing Russian expansion-as much feared in the 19th century as it came to be in the 20th. To do this, he had to prop up the decaying Ottoman Empire, a policy that outraged Liberals who felt that it was a violation of British principles to support a corrupt regime. To stretch a point or two, Disraeli even had a McGovern hectoring him in the person of Gladstone, the Liberal leader who thundered his righteous...
...Crimson escaped with only one injury, a slight brain concussion to prop Tom Lapinski in the second half. Lapinski returned to play in the final minutes of the game, however, and won't miss any future action...
Harvard Band Prop Crew...