Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Third, Crowe makes the garage door opener serve as a consistent symbol of attachment. The set decorator (Clay Griffith) and set designer (Cosmas Demetriou) manage to place this middle class prop within easy grabbing distance anytime a character is about to propose a commitment...
...production does not tear down Diego Rivera (William Rhodes) to prop up Frida Kahlo, nor does it make oppression center stage. In life, Kahlo was above that, and this production of her life also rises above simplistic analyses...
...speak up for our values," hesaid. "Marxist regimes have been falling one byone, and China is sort of the dinosaur now, tryingto prop up Leninism with consumerism...
...going to make a dictator out of me." He plans to run for the post of parliamentary speaker as an independent, in an effort to stand apart from the squabbling parties and blocs. With no political or military power base he can trust, Shevardnadze has only one strong prop: his personal connections with the West. ; Whatever else they may think of Shevardnadze, Georgians take pride in the fact that he has friends in high places...
...decades, Africa could count on the cold war as an economic resource. The U.S. and the former Soviet Union muscled each other through African proxies, pouring in money to prop up pro-Western or pro-Communist surrogates. Now the big powers' priorities have gone elsewhere. Russia's most prominent expert on African economies, Sergei Shatalov, devotes his attention to his own country's debt problems. Europe's available investment capital is being diverted to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states...