Word: prop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program, described by Shiras as a "carrot and stick" approach to building support for the existing regime. "The land reform program cannot be divorced from the political context in which it takes place, just as U.S. economic aid cannot be neatly separated from military aid--both are tools to prop up a government directly responsible for the deaths of over 12,000 of its own citizens last year." Leonel Gomez, a former official in the land reform program, adds land reform has strengthened the hand of the military, "whose sole concern is for increased U.S. military and economic...
...lackluster business in their all-important Christmas season. The electronics firms of northern California's "Silicon Valley," which make microchip components for computers, have for years been riding a heady boom, but now their profits are plummeting. Employment and spending by state and local governments kept a sturdy prop under the national economy during many previous recessions, but now they too are falling, in part because Reagan's budget cuts have reduced the flow of federal cash...
...participants plan discussions, civil-disobedience training and prop-making workshops on Sunday morning, followed by a demonstration at the Air and Space Museum, which houses replicas of atomic bombs, and a night-long vigil at the White House...
...STRONG IRONY marks this Reagan administration "triumph." Although American foreign policymakers seem intent on flaunting the country's military power, they appear intent on flouting the principles of power in international relations. It would not seem to behoove those who pride themselves on their realpolitik to prop up the Royal House of Saud. Or to give Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin further incentive to act intransigently. Or, as a matter of principle, to arrange for others to defend American interests, to trust the kindness of undemocratic regimes while exerting pressure on one of America's few genuine friends...
...process of budget-making has been complicated a hundred-fold by the passage of Proposition 2 1/2, the property tax-cutting measure which Bay State voters approved overwhelmingly last fall. Prop 2 1/2, the property tax-cutting measure which Bay State voters approved overwhelmingly last fall. Prop 2 1/2 reduces the total expenditures of each municipality in the Commonwealth, and thus forces tough choices by local governments. The city council this year passed a budget which significantly reduced funding for the school, fire and police departments without drastically affecting city services. Next fiscal year, however, the choices promise...