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Until the end of the 1980s, Soviet trade and subsidies were crucial factors in propping up Cuba’s heavily centralized and often badly planned economy.
The U.S. military also plans to target the Iraqi Republican Guards' favorite toys--artillery weapons, tanks, and other heavy weapons--as well as their hardened bunkers and munitions factories, hoping that Saddam's "elite" troops will finally decide the price of propping up the dictator has become too high.
Scientists are forever seeking new solutions for propping it up, but at its present rate of slippage, you still have at least another 200 years to see it standing more or less upright.
All that having been said, it must be acknowledged that as long as people buy books, publishers do not really much care whether they are read, used as doorstops, or for propping up a sagging curio cabinet.
5. "Despite the fact that Mexican taxpayers are on the hook for $71 billion to bail out a host of banks that the Mexican government has been propping up for most of this decade, the government continues to insist that no public official did anything wrong and that no one should be punished.