Word: prop
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...every business can be special," says J.D. Foster, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. "When you start identifying federal programs to prop up every conceivable industry that's complaining of economic hard times, you end up with a situation in which everybody is supporting everybody- which means nobody is being supported...
...Mormons and Prop 8 I'm grateful to David Van Biema for a refreshingly thoughtful, balanced article on Mormons [June 22]. What's been alarming about the Prop 8 debate is how few people accusing Mormons of intolerance have been willing to look at why church members feel so strongly. Greg Palmer, Rexburg, Idaho...
...summer, the nation's department stores are still cold. According to the retail-sales statistics released by the Commerce Department on July 14, June department store sales dipped 1.3% compared to sales in May of this year, and were down 9.4% compared with June of 2008. So to prop up sales before the back-to-school season, one major player is asking Santa, of all people, for some help...
...knew the symbolic potency of the veil, too, citing the discrimination of American 'women of cover' during post 9/11 tensions. Now two Presidents, Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama, have taken up the veil, framing it as a topic in radically different ways. Sarkozy used Muslim dress as a nationalistic prop, seeing it as a threat to France's eternal values. Obama used it as a chance to set out a new approach to U.S.-Muslim relations, based on a framework of freedoms. Both attitudes are flawed; both ignore the struggles of Muslim women over matters far more formidable than veils...
...grateful to David Van Biema for a refreshingly thoughtful, balanced article on Mormons [June 22]. What's been alarming about the Prop 8 debate is how few people accusing Mormons of intolerance have been willing to look at why church members feel so strongly. Greg Palmer, REXBURG, IDAHO...