Word: prop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This book passes from his hands to a policeman's; it is stolen by a juvenile delinquent and next appears as a prop in a pornographic photograph, which winds up back in Ignatius' hands...
...best sense. He has an innate decency to go along with a good intellectual capacity. He'll be tough with the Soviets, both in getting a deal and sticking to it." Says Carter: "Ed Muskie doesn't have to come to me to make sure I prop him up." He will have enough clout, continued the President, "not to be eaten alive by the State Department bureaucracy before his feet are on the ground...
Rather than yielding to the pleas of special interest groups to prop up badly managed and uncompetitive firms, the government usually tries to purge the economy of them as quickly and smoothly as possible. When Japan's shipbuilding industry, which accounts for fully 50% of the world's capacity, ran aground in the 1974 recession, the government began urging the yards to diversify into other lines of business such as industrial machinery, antipollution equipment and desalination plants, and encouraged banks to make available the necessary financing. Orders for ships have picked up again, and the slimmed-down industry...
...region of the world) will continue to struggle for what they perceive as their legitimate rights to political and economic freedom. As long as the U.S. is seen as inhibiting the realization of such rights, we can expect to invite the antipathy of the peoples there. Any attempt to prop up governments against their peoples is only a stop-gap measure, as Iran bears witness, and obversely, as Afghanistan is also likely to demonstrate at some point. The retreat into Cold War logic, which views indigenous national struggles as indicative of "communist influence," only leads to further alienation of peoples...
...most effective prop in Le Guin's act is the quick, sharp description, the vivid detail that lights up its surroundings. The author catches one of Hugh's fellow checkers with a single sentence: "She had a lot of dark red hair, which she had recently got made into a fashionable mane of curls and tendrils that made her look twenty from behind and sixty face on." She gives Mountain Town a medieval European feel simply by looking down at one of its narrow lanes, "so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps, like a person...