Word: prop
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Work he did. Voinovich quickly made peace with the city's business community and persuaded eight local banks to buy back $10.5 million in defaulted notes and lend the city another $25.7 million at 8⅞% interest. He also launched a campaign to prop up the city's faltering services by asking voters last November to approve a ½% increase in the city's income tax. When the measure lost, the mayor announced a host of budget cuts and threatened not to run for a second term...
...majority of Crimson players echo captain Al Halliday, who said, "We know we won't be embarrassed," and added that "if we play up to our capabilities and the matches come down to aggressiveness and loose play. I can't see anyone beating us." Prop Keith Cooper expressed the same sentiments when he said, "The key to winning will be aggressiveness and doing some assassinating...
Outraged by the drug connection, U.S. congressmen have organized opposition to the Garcia Meza regime. Sen. Dennis De Concinni (R-Ariz.), one of the most vocal opponents, contends that cocaine elites actually prop up the government, referring to an alleged $70 million emergency grant given by those involved in the illicit trade to avert an impending economic crisis. De Concinni and others also demanded that the most blatant drug traders be removed from the government, a condition that Garcia Meza met last month by dismissing Colonels Arce Gomez and Coca. The Bolivian government propbably will continue to comply with...
Indeed, the Dodgers may have the best young pitcher in baseball in Fernando Valenzuela, 20. He had already mastered the arcane art of throwing a screwball when the Dodgers called him up from the Mexican League to prop up a bullpen crumbling under injuries. Valenzuela pitched ten times, often with the game on the line, and did not give up a single earned run in 17.2 innings. Now a starter, he shut out the Astros on opening day last week, allowing them only five hits...
This enthusiasm helps compensate for the production's predictably rough edges: a missed line, a mishandled prop. a conversation shouted instead of projected. Unfortunately, Saka's direction sometimes isn't up to the challenges of performing theatre-in-the-round, as when he lets actors huddle around a dying man, muffling lines and shutting off visual expression...