Word: prop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole conception of a presidentially mandated national conversation is nonsense, indeed pernicious nonsense. It is nonsense, first, to think that America suffers from a dearth of conversation about race. We are obsessed with race. We can't stop talking about race. Prop. 209, O.J., Piscataway, the gerrymandering cases, race and the death penalty, race and the law schools, race and the Oscars, race and baseball (black attendance is down): Is there an issue under the American sun that has not been given a racial cast...
...other clubs seem closer to head shops than hospitals. Dennis Peron, a pro-pot proselytizer who helped draft Prop 215 and runs the San Francisco Cannabis Cultivators Club, admits he sells pot for everything from premenstrual syndrome to the blues. "All use of marijuana is medical," says Peron. "It makes you smarter. It touches the right brain and allows you to slow down, to smell the flowers. We're living in a very stressful world. It can and should be used for anxiety and depression...
...students' point--all along has been that giving all Harvard students access to an entryway door does not diminish the degree to which that door can be considered locked. If anything, because we will be naturally both more likely to question students entering without ID and less likely to prop doors for friends or pizza delivery people, universal access would in no way make the first of those two doors any less secure...
MOSCOW: History is a cruel and capricious mistress, a fact of which nobody ought to be more aware than Pizza Hut poster boy Mikhail Gorbachev. The man once feted as the visionary whose reforms brought down the Iron Curtain has been reduced to a prop in a fast food...
...While disruptive in the short term, the firm's closure may ultimately pave the way for economic recovery in that country, which tends to prop up financial institutions that are saddled with debt. It was billions of dollars in illegal debt that ultimately sank Yamaichi Securities. If the Japanese government is willing to let it go under, it may signal a positive policy shift. And although the Tokyo stock exchange dropped 5 percent on the news, followed closely by drops in Hong Kong and South Korea, it seems Japan's economic woes are unlikely to spread worldwide. The National Association...