Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the vast majority of Americans, I believe the U.S. should prop up Israel because it's our moral duty to stick up for threatened democracies. Israel's Jewishness is immaterial to us. To Dersh, it isn't, so he needs to spend an inordinate amount of mental energy convincing himself (and others) that there is no contradiction at all between supporting Israel the democracy and Israel the Jewish state...
...authorize tariff and credit concessions. The White House has been noncommittal, on that subject and on the possibility of Gorbachev's attending the G-7 summit. Among the other G-7 members, Germany is strongly in favor of inviting Gorbachev and of doing anything else that might prop up the Kremlin leader; it trusts Gorbachev far more than any potential successor to carry through the barely begun pullout of 380,000 Soviet troops from what used to be East Germany. But the summit hosts in Britain are divided. Prime Minister John Major has spoken in favor of inviting Gorbachev...
...Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh are expected to be on hand to congratulate Dos Santos and Savimbi -- as well they might. Since Angola won independence from Portugal in 1975, $ Moscow has spent as much as $1 billion a year to prop up the regime, while the U.S. has contributed up to $60 million annually to the rebels...
...execution was helped right along by senior wing Steve Cohn's two tries. Scrum half Andy Howard and prop Chris Geary each scored one more point than the entire Northeastern team did with its solitary tallies...
...There isn't anything that's obvious to do," Jewett says, laying some of the blame for campus crime on students who prop open or forget to lock doors and who walk alone at night without considering the risks. He said he considered the main challenge "getting people to change their mindsets...