Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shareholders with a pile of stock valued at about $8.5 billion and, according to the deal's rough outline, make Turner a vice chairman of the combined company with authority over his previous holdings and may be more. Time War ner would get Turner's globe-straddling cable prop erties--CNN and the Cartoon Network, plus three other channels-along with two movie companies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock, and sports properties that include the potent Atlanta Braves...
...others. The taiga, the word used to describe the region's enormous forests, in particular has captured the attention of both foreigners and Russians. Japan, Korea and the U.S. covet the rich forests of southern Siberia. The Russian government sees its timber as a quick source of cash to prop up an economy that continues to flounder. Fearful of an economic collapse that might once again bring to power a hostile, nuclear-armed totalitarian regime, the U.S. is trying to promote the responsible exploitation of the region's resources, in part through a series of agreements on trade and technology...
During the mid-1980s, as McDougal struggled to prop up his sinking S&L, Madison Guaranty, he increasingly turned to Clinton--friend, business partner and Governor of Arkansas--with requests. Once, McDougal complained to a Clinton aide about a state health inspector who was causing him problems with a land development--and who was later reassigned. In a March 1986 memo from the aide, McDougal is quoted as saying "he hadn't spent $60,000" on Bill Clinton over the years only to lose a battle with a state health inspector. In late 1984, when McDougal was seeking changes...
...conjured up an unsustainable array of needy groups and individuals ... Well meaning in its objective, [it] has also produced unexpected consequences. Art is not a product like soybeans, but rather the outcome of imaginative endeavor by talented people, of whom there is always a limited supply. When grants prop up artists unable to attract audiences, individuals with limited abilities persist, crowding out superior talents." Should the American people be forced to underwrite cultural dependents who add to our decay and undermine our values rather than enhance our lives...
...being entertained by the Chinese actress Gong Li and Hong Kong heartthrob Leslie Cheung, both of whom starred in Chen's 1993 hit, Farewell My Concubine. Gong Li picks up a TV remote and pretends it's a telephone ("Wei? Wei?"--"Hello?"), then playfully runs it under a prop man's arm as if she were a beautician with an electric shaver...