Word: propping
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...addition to renovating the public and backstage support areas, the designers also plan to raise the current building and append 40 ft. of underground space to include an additional rehearsal room and prop room, as well as several offices and conference spaces...
...equivalent of an 8% discount on its base model. The move follows a 31,085 rebate offered by GM's Opel to early buyers of its new Astra, which is set to launch in March. In the U.K., many dealers now offer 0% financing - for years used to prop up the U.S. market - as a lure. "From the consumer's point of view, it's paradise, but it's a total disaster for manufacturers," says Peter Schmidt, publisher of an auto insiders' newsletter. He says a list of rebates and discounts now being offered would "be as long as your...
...dogged and earnest as she is when she is campaigning for Kerry on her own, Teresa (pronounced Tuh-ray-za), 65, does not function nearly so well as a prop. Onstage beside her husband during yet another recitation of his stump speech, she stands with her wavy hair falling over her eyes, looking preoccupied or, worse, bored. Only recently did she begin using Kerry's last name, switch her party registration from Republican and quit referring to the late Senator Heinz in the present tense as "my husband." She still has a tendency to volunteer what another political spouse might...
...French naval technicians and another explosion outside the U.S. consulate in the same city in June 2002 that killed 12 Pakistanis. Diplomats in Islamabad say that one reason Musharraf was reluctant to get tough on Muslim extremists was that most were allied with religious parties he needed to prop up his regime...
...Bush out of the White House,” but this was a minority opinion—most who responded will be happy to see Bush go but won’t be completely satisfied to see the baton passed to any of the other candidates. A forward prop seems to sum up the feelings of many others when she said, “of course I recognize that the outcome [of the presidential election] matters gravely, but I also feel quite disempowered.” Radcliffe Rugby will vote, but it’s not because...