Word: propped
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...what they needed. So is the movie. It revels in showing how Milk built his campaign staff from the lovers and locals who wandered into Castro Camera; how he fought the city's gay establishment, until then discreet in identifying itself; how he debated John Briggs, the sponsor of Prop. 6, to a standstill and was instrumental in having the initiative defeated by more than a million votes. You've never seen this before: a movie that builds a state referendum into a suspenseful and agitating emotional climax. Ain't politics grand...
...Three decades ago, Milk and his ilk were able to enlist President Jimmy Carter and future President Ronald Reagan in the gay fight against Prop. 6. But this fall, Barack Obama was all but mute on Prop. 8. Some community organizers, like the President-elect, are more cautious than others. It's a shame Harvey Milk wasn't around to recruit...
...latest move to prop up the nation's flailing financial system, the U.S. government unveiled plans on Monday to rescue one of the world's biggest banks, plowing $20 billion of new capital into Citigroup and shouldering up to tens of billions of dollars in losses tied to the bank's soured assets. After a brutal week for Citi - marked by pink slips for tens of thousands of workers and a 60% drop in its stock price - news that the government would step in propelled its shares, which rose 58% from Friday's close. "Equity investors were panicked about...
...reaction among gay rights advocates to their recent electoral setback is damaging in that it serves to confirm their opponents’ fears that the movement is positively anti-democratic. In addition to being in poor taste, the aggressive reaction to Prop 8 will ultimately prove self-destructive. As recent history has shown us, popular opinion on the gay marriage front is fluctuating, and it will likely be a central issue in the next election as gay rights supporters seek to overturn marriage bans...
...taping, they wouldn’t let us keep our own name tags. I had given up my identity for this, and now I couldn’t even keep the one thing that identified me as me. I was so angry, I considered swiping it or even a prop from another show taped in the studio—a law book belonging to Judge Judy, perhaps. My teammates convinced me to remain within the law, at least until the studio sent us our prize money for coming in a respectable second. I let my anger subside and left without...