Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent his campaign distancing himself from me. Now that he's President he's trying to dismiss me. He's trying to prop up other black leaders. It's not working. Look at the polls; walk the streets. The other guys don't have the juice. It's only...
...Balloon angioplasty -- inflating a tiny balloon to widen a clogged artery -- is much less expensive and dangerous than a heart-bypass operation. Unfortunately, the artery tends to squeeze shut again. But inserting a tiny wire coil to prop the artery open appears to solve the problem...
Howard, in the scrum half position, exploded in the first minutes of the match to score and put Harvard ahead. By the end of the game, Howard had scored two tries. Senior prop Matteo Peccei scored the second try of the game, Marx said...
...Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code, which permits U.S. companies to shelter the profits of their Puerto Rican subsidiaries. Now worth about $3.4 billion a year, this huge tax break was intended to create industry and jobs. To the statehooders, both the commonwealth and its chief economic prop, Section 936, are obsolete because they no longer produce much economic growth. Rossello argues that Puerto Rico can go forward only with "full participation, with all the rights, all the privileges but also all the responsibilities" of statehood. While he makes the transition sound easy, his opponents predict corruption of Puerto...
Higher education in general, and Harvard in particular, claims to exists for the pursuit of truth. Some, like John Trumpbour, editor of How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire (1989) believe that the University is a sort of bourgeois conspiracy to prop up the ruling class. Most of us would have a more sympathetic view of Harvard. And higher expectations...