Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...propaganda shows through their unconvincing pretense of neutrality. In this week's AAA newsletter, political chair Veronica Jung '96 tells all AAA members who are registered to vote in California to "VOTE NO ON PROP 187" but then adds the bizarre disclaimer, "BUT ONLY IF YOU ARE CONVINCED BY THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE...
...Prop 187 is so harsh -- and probably unconstitutional -- that several respected Republicans have come out against it -- and, by extension, against Wilson. In a year when Republicans have so far stuck together like Gummi Bears, Jack Kemp and William Bennett, both ambitious men unlikely to buck their party, tried appealing to conscience. While acknowledging that illegal immigration must be stopped, they argued that Prop 187 is a nativist measure that appeals to the angry and won't fix the problem. The measure, said Kemp, would "corrode the soul of the party." Bennett warned, "It is going to label all immigrants...
...thing, winning another. Polls show 59% of likely voters favoring S.O.S. Michael Huffington, who was so respectful of Bennett that he plugged Bennett's The Book of Virtues in his campaign ads, ignored him and endorsed the initiative. Two weeks earlier, Huffington didn't even know what Prop 187 was. Said he: "I have not yet made a public stand on 170 -- er, what was that...
...fired acting Finance Minister Sergei Dubinin, a critic of easing monetary policy, and asked parliament to dismiss central bank chairman Victor Gerashenko -- who resigned, but only after a personal meeting with Yeltsin. Considered by many an obstacle to reform, Gerashenko had balked at spending scarce hard-currency reserves to prop up the ruble as it went into free fall...
...Both my grandfather and great-uncle, Robert Barrett Lawson '31 and Wilbur L. Lawson '31, were on the prop crew and pulled the original Big Drum," says K.T. Lawson '97. "Today, I'm the Assistant Manager of the prop crew, and in that capacity, I pull the Big Drum...