Word: prop
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...juniors, a night at Gillian’s and a barbecue for sophomores and Loker nights for first-years. And Mahan’s vice president, Michael R. Blickstead ’05, says the Council hopes to dole out more money to House Stein Clubs to help prop up social life...
...aftereffects of Sept. 11. The smaller carriers complain that taxpayers should not be asked to keep financing those airlines' inefficient ways. "What kind of public policy is it," asks Edward Faberman, a Washington lobbyist who helped compose the letter, "to relieve bad management from their mistakes and to prop up dinosaur companies?" Responds a spokeswoman for United: "These moves are what's needed to be competitive in this environment, and they are being done in cost-effective ways." --By Sally B. Donnelly
...strongly encourage people not to prop doors at any time,” he said. “They...
Death, Elliot says, defines us. And it's just one of a handful of tricks this dark prince of plasticine uses "to make these little blobs as human as possible." His seemingly simple aesthetic is in fact amazingly detailed - every miniature prop, from the curtains on Harvie's TV set to the wallpaper, is handmade - and filmed in a painstaking stop-motion process that took 14 months. "It's very meditative," Elliot says. "You can't rush it." It's also mesmerizing. The film's showstopper is a Busby Berkeley-inspired dream sequence involving Alzheimer's patients in wheelchairs...
...Judith Steinberg Dean appears to be a real person, taking care of real business. Surely she is doing more good by attending to her patients than she would by acting like an adoring appendage to her husband. Dean can take care of himself; he doesn't need to prop himself up on an Adam's rib. Carolyn M. Clayton Kent...