Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, the banker's deals have helped prop up Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. When heating-oil supplies fell dangerously low last October, the banker loaned Belgrade $2.5 million to bolster the city's depleted reserves before winter. He now wants the loan repaid directly to Jugoskandik depositors...
...first glance, the poster from Robert Altman's film "The Player" might appear to be just another randomly placed prop gracing the set of First Night, a convincing facsimile of a video store. Eventually, however, the parallels between the movie and this play become clear. First Night attempts to accomplish with light-hearted humor what "The Player" did with dark satire--to blur the distinction between the worlds of illusion and reality. Yet, while "The Player" illustrates the danger of individuals who lose contact with the real world, First Night wants to affirm the beauty of dreams and their power...
Stephen King here tries a novel without his customary latex spider webs and prop-department zombies, and nearly makes it work. What drives Dolores Claiborne is a powerful characterization of the title figure, a cranky old Maine islander who takes no guff from life or death. In a rasping, unrepentant tale to police, she admits to murdering her rotten husband 30 years ago. Narrative logic is murky here, but her confession is supposed to show that, on the other hand, she has not murdered her employer, a rich, loony off-islander...
Science should not be expected to work miracles, as overzealous researchers sometimes seem to promise. It can't build a leakproof nuclear umbrella, stop the evolution of new plagues or prop up an economy in the face of fiscal irresponsibility. But the consensus in Washington is that the full potential of American science is not being tapped. The job ahead for Clinton, the new Congress and scientific leaders is to determine how best to use limited research dollars to reveal new knowledge -- and put that knowledge to work solving society's problems...
...Amid Europe's ongoing currency flux, Soros could have easily come out a big loser. But when the pound tumbled, his risky triumph delighted investors in the Soros-run Quantum Fund and peeved officials in Western Europe's vulnerable central banks, who were forced to cough up billions to prop up slipping currencies. Perhaps the banks' anger was just; speculators can push a currency up or down as much as 15% an hour...