Word: prop
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Large American corporations in Southern Africa, such as Gulf, only serve to prop up these racist regimes and strengthen the political and economic ties of these regimes to the United States. When these United States corporations, the State Department, and their faithful supporters (such as Harvard University) talk about improving conditions for blacks they betray their paternalist, racist and colonialist mentality and act against the wishes of the African people they claim they are "helping...
Peanuts and Corn. Basically, the Government tries to restrict production by paying farmers to reduce the amount of land that they cultivate. It also seeks to prop up the market for crops like wheat, corn, rice and peanuts by guaranteeing a minimum price. Farmers can collect money for taking land out of production, then increase the yield on the acreage they do use, and collect at least the support price on all that they raise. A study last year by former Budget Director, Charles Schultze, estimated that consumers pay an extra $4.5 billion a year for food because of price...
...widely-circulated SDS leaflet yesterday mentioned both Seamans and Land. It charged that "Polaroid's investments are a major prop of the South African minority government...
...companies decline to release figures on their female employees, and some craft unions do not keep track of membership by sex. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators will say only that its women members tend to be concentrated in such job areas as prop makers, costumers, makeup and hair stylists, publicists and lab technicians. Even in these jobs they are outnumbered by men. The Writers Guild of America, Inc., which includes movie scriptwriters and writers of TV news and entertainment shows, has an estimated membership of 4,500. Of that number, a spokesman guesses...
...intensive industrialization campaign in the countryside. The People's Republic is now prepared to pay for specific industrial goods needed for modernization. But professors Benjamin Schwartz and Ojha are quick to stress that this does not mean the Chinese are now going to rely on foreign trade to prop up the economy as was the case with Russian aid in the early Fifties...