Word: prop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remains his for the asking. As presidential contender John McCain suggested earlier this month, the one sure way to continue America's economic prosperity is to have Greenspan stay on, whether he is alive or dead. "If Mr. Greenspan should happen to die, God forbid... I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses...
...DANGEROUS FRIEND by Ward Just. A well-meaning American sociologist arrives in Vietnam in the mid-1960s on a quasi-official mission to help prop up the civil government. What follows is a small, tense drama that foreshadows the wartime tragedies that lie ahead. Knowing how reality turned out makes this fiction not a whit less engrossing or enlightening...
...have to storm University Hall if they're already there, while the Undergraduate Council could salute the flag outside and then demonstrate their democratic fervor within. IGP could improvise in the basement and HRTV could broadcast on the roof. After a century as a two-thousand-pound prop for The Man, the John Harvard statue would finally stand for students, first and foremost...
...Berkeley campus, which responded to the passing of Prop. 209 in 1996 with thousand-strong demonstrations in the university's Sproul Plaza, reacted with consternation to Noguera's departure...
...egos if so much were not at stake. Campbell believes preserving affirmative action is vital to the continued prosperity of the black middle class. Tucker thinks blacks need to prepare for the day when such programs are outlawed by conservative courts or ballot initiatives such as California's Prop. 209. This is a serious difference of opinion that deserves a dignified debate by serious people, not a wallow in the mud. Surely, the mayor of a major American city and one of the country's most formidable journalists are smart enough to figure that...