Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stepped in front of the hero received a genial tongue lashing. The hapless soprano assigned to cover for Kiri Te Kanawa should she get sick had a bad day, going left when she should have gone right, up the stairs when she belonged on the ground, picking a prop flower off cue. At the beginning of the glorious duet in which the heroine learns that Boccanegra is her father, she began playfully fingering his shirt. For the umpteenth time, Del Monaco charged down the aisle. "Stop! Stop, stop, stop!" he yelled. "What are you doing? You look like you want...
...which the Mexican currency lost more than a third of its value against other currencies. The gains came as a delegation from the International Monetary Fund arrived in Mexico City to review the country's precarious financial condition amid growing concern about the Mexican government's unwillingness to prop up the peso. But the market was also encouraged by word today from Southern Mexico that Indian rebels there are ready to resume negotiations with the government...
...conspicuous number of crashes have involved commuter airlines, including the October wreck of an American Eagle ATR-72 in Indiana that killed all 68 people on board. One reason for the increased number of commuter crashes is simply growth in traffic. Regional airlines that tend to operate smaller, prop-driven planes carried 50 million passengers in 1993, up from 15 million...
Over the weekend, about a dozen American Eagle pilots refused to fly ATR-72 turbo prop jets -- the model that crashed in Indiana a month ago -- believing that they are unsafe in cold, rainy weather, according to a report today in the Chicago Tribune. The management of American Eagle said a number of Sunday's flights had been cancelled. Meanwhile, the Association of Flight Attendants made public a letter sent last week to American Eagle expressing its members' safety concerns surrounding the planes. The flight attendants requested the airline ground the planes during icy weather until a federal review...
...federal courts may have temporarily put a halt to enforcement of Proposition 187, but many Californians -- who passed the Nov. 8 initiative 59% to 41% -- appear to be ignoring the legal injunction and taking enforcement into their own hands. In the past two weeks special Prop 187 hot lines in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno and Sacramento have received thousands of calls from distraught victims reporting impromptu acts of discrimination that recalled the vigilante spirit of the old Wild West. Many of the callers were citizens or legal residents, wrongly suspected of being illegal. "No one has the word undocumented...