Word: propped
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...Afrocentrist claim can be summarized quite easily. It says the history of the cultural relations between Africa and Europe is bunk -- a prop for the fiction of white European supremacy. Paleohistorians agree that intelligent human life began in the Rift Valley of Africa. The Afrocentrist goes further: the African was the cultural father of us all. European culture derives from Egypt, and Egypt is part of Africa, linked to its heart by the artery of the Nile. Egyptian civilization begins in sub-Saharan Africa, in Ethiopia and the Sudan...
Previewing his State of the Union message next week, the President promised to create new jobs, prop up real estate values, help Americans with health- care costs and make the nation more competitive. His apology for declaring the recession over last summer was perhaps the shrewdest stroke. "I probably have made mistakes in assessing the fact that the economy would recover," he said. Such statements are designed to disarm voters who blame both Bush and Congress for the economic problems but blame Bush more. As one leading New Hampshire Republican put it, "Voters here are so unaccustomed to hearing...
...other side of the Atlantic, workers at the Daily Mirror expressed dismay and anger after it was revealed that Captain Bob, as the swashbuckling Maxwell was dubbed years ago by the British humor magazine Private Eye, had looted their pension fund and treasury in order to prop up his personal fiefdom. The transactions, which took place in the months before he died, are being probed by British authorities. Last Friday SFO agents raided the family headquarters at Maxwell House in search of documents relating to the missing pension funds. Still, bemoans Ossie Fletcher, the former editor of the Mirror Group...
...forgotten that this conference exists only because the United States twisted lots of arms. Assad does not want to make peace with Israel, but, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, he needs a new patron to prop up his dictatorship, and America has made this conference a condition for assuming that role...
Britt Stephens made his presence known early as a loose forward and dominated the line out throughout the game. Prop Chris Geary faced off against Terriers' veteran Rob Getneu, but handled him decisively. Crimson wing-forward Dave Houston led the defensive surge against B.U. with his overpowering tackles and speed...