Word: propped
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...Perot charts and graphs, Bill Clinton naturally produced a memorable prop -- the dummied-up universal-coverage ID card -- during his health-care speech. But the grandstanding use of visual aids is a recurring story in modern American politics...
...secularism, which makes it possible for more and more people to think of God as an idea that belongs to the past. She also notes in all three faiths a surging counterrevolutionary fundamentalism that to her represents a problem rather than a solution: its proponents "use 'God' to prop up their own loves and hates." In short, this kind of religiosity is simply a new idolatry and thus represents a retreat from...
What was that bizarre sight in San Francisco Bay last week? Darth Vader's helmet? A movie prop for Batman III? No, the vessel steaming across the water on a test mission was Sea Shadow, a 160-ft., 560-ton, welded-steel catamaran that is the latest thing in Navy technology: a Stealth ship. Designed by the same Lockheed "skunk works" that built the F-117A Stealth fighter, the ship has sloping angles and a special coating designed to make it nearly invisible to enemy sonar and radar. Such stealthy boats might someday guard the perimeter of carrier groups, covertly...
...Restic is on the national fringe. "Well, la-ti-da," a writer for the Houston Post wrote in response. "Harvard's never lost a recruit to Prop...
Tehran badly miscalculated its income from oil exports after the Gulf War, counting on an OPEC price hike that did not materialize. The oil industry has not regained its prewar export capacity, and its $16 billion a year in earnings helps prop up other failing state enterprises. The country is already $5 billion in arrears in its foreign-debt repayments, and is expected to be about $10 billion behind a year from...