Word: prop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the referendum companioning will hit a peak the weekend as prop us opting the death penalty question and the hotter the mount major leafleting and canvassing efforts...
...their pants. Others keep their fists tightly clenched for the duration of their journey through the Square. Some appear willing to accept on approach, but then, to the dismay of the leafleter, just before of actual handover, reach up and straighten their prop up their eyeglasses. We on Mass, Ave had something of a slogan for these people: "no hands, no business...
...tied to farmers are teetering, from small-town grocery stores to industrial giants such as International Harvester, which expects to lose $1.6 billion this year. Exports have for a decade absorbed more than a quarter of U.S. farm output and most of the surpluses, and thus helped to prop up prices, but the value of exports fell this year (from $43.8 billion to $40.5 billion) for the first time since 1969. Meanwhile, millions of tons of grain-35 million tons of wheat alone-sit unsold in overflowing silos and elevators across the U.S. heartland. Storage space is so tight that...
...struggle for the chip market took a new turn last week when the Department of Justice announced that it was investigating six Japanese firms for possibly conspiring to limit their exports to the U.S. and prop up chip prices. The probe came as a surprise because only last year the Japanese had been cutting prices to boost exports. Many Tokyo officials saw the investigation as Washington's attempt to retaliate against their success in the semiconductor confrontation...
...concocts a cabal called "Penelope." Its conspirators are a strange admixture of the notorious and celebrated, including Perfumer François Côty, Sir Alan Paisley, Field Marshal Von Ribbentrop, third in the Nazi hierarchy, and Hugh Selwyn himself. Mauberley's assignment: to persuade Wallis to prop up the Duke as a figurehead who will "rule" a United Europe controlled by fascists from England and Germany. Ribbentrop dangles a glittering prize before the duchess: "Your Royal Highness perhaps does not understand that there are crowns that have never yet been worn by anyone." She replies without hesitation...