Word: prop
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...France last week sent some 70 soldiers from the 11th Parachute Brigade to set up a tactical headquarters for the 1,000 French troops already deployed. The troops' arrival marks a shift in France's policy toward her former African colonies. In the past, France regularly sent soldiers to prop up governments and dictators close to Paris. But following criticism of France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide - France allegedly continued to arm and support Rwanda's Hutu-led government even after the murder of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu began - President Chirac declared that...
...Iraq - where so many Labourites have profound disagreements with Tony Blair. These annual rituals are a funny mix of theater, trading floor and reunion. You can see Cabinet ministers getting buttonholed by irate local officials or chatting amiably about former Prime Minister John Major's sex scandal as they prop up the bar the night before their big speeches. Once the scene of brutal factional brawls, the conference in Blair's era has been systematically drained of strife. So this year two things were striking: that Blair came in for something of a rough ride, and that old-fashioned oratory...
...living that the American war on terrorism is, indeed, a cause for spilling more blood. The hierarchy of the dead serves to reinforce the militancy and vindictiveness that have driven the policies of our nation’s unelected hereditary ruler. He has used the patriotic rage to prop up or to bully fellow unelected leaders who have allowed their citizens to indulge in an irrational hatred of America. But as long as those leaders remain pliant providers of oil to America, they are exempted from military reprisal. The president has used the “patriotism card?...
...case, quarterback, wideout and linebacker were all making love to the cameras during last week’s football media day, playfully pitching a prop pigskin back and forth to each other as flashbulbs popped...
When the Federal Government set up the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) last fall to help prop up the ailing airlines with $10 billion in loan guarantees, many credit-strapped CEOs licked their chops in anticipation of yet another big, fat government handout. But this time, at least so far, Uncle Sam hasn't turned into Uncle Sugar. Trying to impose some much needed discipline on the free-spending flyers, the Stabilization Board has required stringent cost-cutting measures as a condition for its help--and hasn't been shy about turning down such requests, as it did with National...