Word: prop
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said the Commerce Department, pleasantly surprising forecasters who expected a small drop. It's a volatile measure (just look at April's precipitous 5.5 percent fall) but it offers some hope for the depressed manufacturing sector as well as a sign that those rate cuts may be helping prop up consumer borrowing on finance-heavy items like cars...
...Fitness for much of the past decade. Wachner and a group of investors bought Warnaco's Speedo swimwear division in 1990 and took it public two years later as Authentic Fitness, only to bring it back to the corporate fold in 1999--a bit of financial gymnastics that helped prop up Wachner's bank account but ultimately loaded Warnaco's balance sheet with an extra $600 million in debt...
...black man convicted of rape and murder in Owensboro, Ky. - but to the 20,000 mostly white Owensboro citizens who filled the streets, a "Roman holiday" that repulsed readers nationwide. The Bureau of Prisons knows this lesson well, having barred demonstrators from carrying frying pans or any other prop that might too gauchely convey that they are happy a killer is about...
...nature of Japanese politics that all is not as it seems. The guy you think is running international trade, for instance, may be a puppet for some bureaucrat deep in his administration. The Prime Minister who seems energetic and bright may be just a prop for the conservatives in his party. The latest Japanese government has its share of opacity too. It arrived in office four weeks ago to the highest hopes of any government in the past decade. Koizumi is a charismatic reformer who speaks his mind and has a plastic, Clintonian charm. His arrival represented a victory over...
...physician at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; stricken with gallstones and pancreatitis; to Punta Arenas, Chile. In the second such mission in a year and a half--Dr. Jerri Nielsen, suffering from breast cancer, was rescued from the same station in October 1999--a team flying a twin-engine prop plane braved -90[Degrees]F winter weather and complete darkness...