Word: propping
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...nearer to the sprawled body, I am somewhat ashamed to say that I, too, hesitated to stop and help her. And in my moment of hesitation, a man behind me rushed to her aid, activating an emergency assistance box a few feet away. After that, I helped the man prop the woman up and give her some water until the paramedics arrived a few minutes later...
Guatemala badly needs all forms of aid to prop up its deteriorating economy. Inflation estimates run as high as 60%, and nearly half the labor force is either unemployed or underemployed. Discontent over the inability of the military regime of General Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores to reverse the economic slump and doubt that a civilian government may be able to do much better have revived support for the country's leftist guerrillas. "There are many people in this country living in misery," says Benedicto Lucas García, a retired general and former Chief of Staff who directed...
...technicians with a new idea: "colorizing" the black-and-white films of Hollywood's Golden Age through computer wizardry. The film is copied onto video and broken down into gradations of gray. An "art director" sits at a console and chooses the colors for each face, dress and prop, which the computerized "paintbrush" adds frame by frame. (Cost per film: about $180,000.) Voilàh! Jimmy Stewart's Christmas tree in It's a Wonderful Life is as green as greenbacks...
...their stock since Spitzer served the first subpoena. In Spitzer's suit, he alleges that AIG, through bogus transactions, inflated the reserves it keeps to pay claims by hundreds of millions of dollars; that Greenberg repeatedly directed AIG traders late in the day to buy AIG shares to prop up its price; and that AIG booked underwriting losses as investment losses to project a healthier core business...
...rules as dictated by Washington?opening itself up to large capital flows from abroad, only to get hammered as that same money flew back out in a matter of days?the truth hurt in ways that most Americans still don't get. The perception was that the U.S. would prop up another nation if threatened with a massive wave of illegal immigration, but otherwise cared only that big American banks should be able to get their money out of Thailand ASAP. Is it any wonder, Mahbubani writes, that China?the one major country that didn't play by Washington...