Stop wasting your time propping up the bar at The Dorchester trying to find Mr Right, and start wasting it at shops that sell fishing tackle instead.
Investors now suspect that Japan and, to a lesser degree China, will have a harder time propping up the dollar to slow any rise in their currencies.
Mogie spends much of his time propped up against one such establishment, where he begs money and spends it on malt liquor for himself and his best friend, Verdell Weasel Tail (the imposing Gary Farmer, who starred in "Smoke Signals").
History suggests that OPEC will face a tough time propping up prices as oil consumption slows and the world teeters on the edge of a global recession, analysts said.
It took two and a half months and 400 to 500 ballpoint pens to complete, Mr. Lee working on sections at a time propped up against the wall in his Brooklyn studio.
England took the Ashes against the weight of all expectation, rugby union's World Cup revealed the extraordinary industry of Japan and Scotland, and then there was the Premier League phenomenon called Leicester City – 1,500-1 in August to finish Christmas at the top of the Premier League, having spent more time propping up the division last season than any other side.
But even Moldova's communists have switched their allegiance from Russia to the West, unable to stomach Russia's continued support for Transdniestria.It beggars belief that Russia can claim international respectability while at the same time propping up Transdniestria and two other separatist enclaves in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which are just as far outside the law.
Even with national security advisor Henry Kissinger Henry Goodmann), who spends a lot of time propping up his boss' ego — "This was two spiders in a bottle, but they needed each other and were willing to play this game" — he dominates the conversation.
Elsewhere in the studio, Jeff Harris, a 31-year-old part-time props specialist who describes himself as a more of a theater performer than anime nerd, is making armor to adorn a Power Ranger costume.
Mostly this is a catalogue of theatrical disasters: doors that won't open, falling sets (brilliantly timed), props that disappear or reappear in the wrong place, corpses that corpse, and heroically incompetent actors.
