Word: prop
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...some women." In fact, the airline industry has pretty much ignored the needs of the fat. Aside from catering to the widespread preference for king-size beds, hotels have also made minimal adaptations. Aware of this, entrepreneur Sabourin--who used to travel with 4-x-4 wooden blocks to prop up rickety hotel beds--sells vacation packages to resorts that qualify as fat friendly...
...most fun aspects of Super Bowl betting ? aside from the post-game scrambling for mortgage payment money ? are the various prop bets available to those who don't mind their check book balances predicated on which way an oblong ball bounces...
...Here are the most intriguing of the prop bets...
...That was a studio prop,” Wilson says. “Cecil Beaton, a very fashionable man who designed the costumes for My Fair Lady, was also photographed in that sweater...
...Chinese investors have long had a habit of relying on the government to prop up the market. Indeed, CSRC officials have been known in the past to summon brokers to meetings and "advise" them to buy stocks when the market dipped too far. Given this tradition of official intervention, investors have learned to base their buying decisions not on whether they think a company's profits will grow in the long term but on what they think the next governmental policy will be. Thus stocks tank every time the CSRC announces plans to let listed state enterprises sell more...