Word: propped
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...suicide attack, Arafat had managed to put his adversities to use in his most recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Palestinian's standing in the Gaza Strip had dropped so low that the Israeli leader -- though no fan of Arafat's -- felt it necessary to prop him up with promises to ease an economic boycott and expand Palestinian autonomy, which is limited to enclaves in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, to the rest of the West Bank. "The situation is alarming," said a senior Israeli negotiator. "We are worried that our agreements will be overturned...
Currency traders were shedding dollars last week like bad scrip, driving its value to a postwar low against the Japanese yen and forcing the U.S. Federal Reserve to prop it up with two days and $2 billion of aggressive buying. Yet even as it is unloaded by speculators, the dollar has become so common across the vast old communist territories that an estimated 50% of the populace in the former Soviet Union, for instance, keeps most of its meager savings in U.S. currency...
...bars illegal immigrants from public schools. The judge said 187 conflicts with a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to provide a public education to all residents. State Attorney General Dan Lungren vowed to fight the judge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. As-yet unchallenged: Prop 187 provisions to cut off health care to illegal immigrants, plus requirements that doctors and nurses turn them...
Drastic times demand drastic measures. Prop 187, and Wilson's plan for documentation, are the only effective solution we have to the problem of illegal immigration. It is a justifiable means to a most desirable...
...Prop. 187 would also require teachers and other public officials to report suspected illegal immigrants to authorities. "People who just happen to look like they're from a different ethnic background will probably be stopped on the street and questioned," said Miriam T. Burgos '98, who is from California. Recent state polls have indicated that the vote on Prop. 187 is too close to call...