Word: prop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wing unilateralist foreign policy advisors make some cogent points. The Russians are short of currency and have been desperately selling gold and diamond reserves. The pipeline would annually provide an estimated $10 million in hard currency once the gas began flowing west. Much of that will be used to prop up repressive satellites like Cuba and Vietnam and to purchase military hardware for ventures such as the Afghanistan takeover. A pipeline, Reagan argues correctly, would not only send badly needed currency to Moscow, but would also increase Western European energy dependence on the Soviets. Plans call for the pipeline...
...greatest honor any graduating high school or prop school student can receive is admission to Harvard College! If this is what they do with such a dear privilege. Heaven help America and Americans. Indeed, it may be that not even Heaven can help us. I was always taught that the Good Lord helps those who help themselves...
...indicator published by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the dollar's trade-weighted value is now higher than it was in 1970. Fulfilling an agreement reached at Versailles, the Reagan Administration last week broke with its free-market doctrine, selling dollars in foreign-exchange markets in order to prop up the weaker currencies...
...controversial property tax-cutting measure would have required city officials to trim the budget by $10.2 million to make up for tax revenue lost in the fiscal year that will begin July 1. But city voters passed a referendum in April overriding the Prop 21/2 mandate and allowing the city to maintain its current total tax levy of $67.9 million...
...person than he does on the screen. But on the slender legs of a runner resides the torso of Charles Atlas. His face is healthily gaunt: rosy but hollow cheeks guard the languid brown eyes. When the yellow cloth fell from the 8½-ft, $70,000 movie-prop bronze statue, Stallone gazed upon his features on the face of a fiction. That confrontation has taken place before. Rocky has made the star wealthy ($25 million from the first two installments), a leading man the equal of an Eastwood or a Reynolds, and a budding Hollywood business force...