Word: propped
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...January bought a 49% stake in Metro International's Boston operation for $16.5 million. Even Associated, in its push to peddle free papers, seems to be cannibalizing itself. Circulation of its own paid-for London title, the Evening Standard, fell 10.8% in the five months to March. Aiming to prop up circulation, Associated late last year launched Standard Lite, a free, slimmed-down, lunchtime version of the evening title. Sources close to the company say only one-third of Standard Lite's readers are willing to buy the bulkier, paid-for evening version. And Britain's Office of Fair Trading...
...That sort of personal connection to the North Korean people animates the book. Becker challenges anyone he considers to be aiding and abetting their suffering. Former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with the North is denounced as a prop for Kim Jong Il's shaky regime. China, which treats refugees as illegal immigrants and repatriates them to face a nightmarish fate, is criticized for ignoring basic Geneva Convention obligations. The United Nations gets the harshest criticism. Becker spends a chapter cataloging the failures of U.N. aid agencies during North Korea's famine. Their chief...
...internal probe came in response to a separate investigation spearheaded by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Last week, it was revealed that officials are also investigating whether Greenberg attempted to prop up AIG’s stock price in the weeks before his removal...
...Meanwhile, the North's ability to wage nuclear war may be growing, thereby increasing the ransom?food and fuel to prop up Kim's ailing economy?that he's expected to demand as the price of nuclear disarmament. North Korea recently shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, raising concerns that it might be harvesting up to 8,000 spent plutonium fuel rods that could be used to build as many as six atomic bombs. Equally troubling, the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, testified in Congress last week that the North may now be capable...
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes, according to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a cigar is an economic prop to a brutal totalitarian regime. Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro "will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro's blood-thirsty hands.... American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor...