Word: prop
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With his carefully cultivated image as a wonk, Greenspan has been heard to say that he is a prop in the long-running political theater that is Washington. But he is also clearly an actor--one of Washington's shrewdest power brokers. He plays politics just as he plays his favorite sport, tennis, in which he is known on occasion to switch his racquet from his right hand to his left in the middle of a point to avoid using his weaker backhand. So it was that during the 1990s the onetime adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford...
...order to finance its attempts to prop up prices, the tin council during the past several years borrowed nearly $500 million from 16 international financial institutions. The creditors, though, are setting tough terms for any future loans. Last week they said that they would postpone the dates for payment on past loans and offer short-and long-term financing needed to keep the cartel afloat, but only on condition that their loans were guaranteed by the 22 governments that make up the council...
Arthur seemed to have coached the cast well in the execution of various staging and prop maneuvers. These details, though seemingly unimportant, were nevertheless quite integral to the smooth conveyance of the plot...
...Soviet Union, artists produced propaganda to prop up Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime...
...Christopher has a marketing epiphany. “Hey guys, let’s get some girls in bikinis to dance on the counter,” he says. “No—let’s put the store on dubs. Yeah, let’s prop the whole building up on 20-inch spinners...