Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazine slammed the University's newly constructed hotel, saying it resembles a "plywood prop from Universal Studios and feels like an upscale hospital inside...
...waves through a van of vegetable oil: "Not a single truck has carried smuggled goods into Iraq." But thanks to Iraqi payoffs lavished on Jordanian government officials, thousands of tons of U.N.-embargoed communications gear, construction parts, military equipment and computers enter Iraq from Jordan to help prop up Saddam Hussein's regime...
...stock exchanges, and the news that Japanese Premier Kiichi Miyazawa would convene a special Cabinet session. The Nikkei resumed its steep downward slide Friday, however, after Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata said it would be difficult to bolster the market. Business leaders have urged the government to take steps to prop up the market. Miyazawa, however, is banking on a supplementary budget to stimulate the economy, but few economists believe the government alone can revive the market...
...ways and remain an appealing character. A bit of fantasy is also disarming. Corman works in guest appearances by film and literary stars, including the reclusive J.D. Salinger, who says, "Sometime when I'm in town, we'll have lunch." Sure, and God is an aged vaudevillian with a prop cigar...
...wreaking havoc on their competitors. Most companies that take refuge in Chapter 11 ultimately fail anyway, critics say, leaving creditors with even fewer assets than if the firms had been liquidated in the first place. Says Sam Zell, a Chicago financier: "It isn't good for the economy to prop up cripples and hand them unfair advantages that allow them to bleed income and help destroy the healthy competition...