One, for incontinence, was a ball-like device used to prop up tissue around the urethra.
Yet, ironically, Asia's massive accumulation of reserves is helping to prop up the American economy.
When evidence of its decline began pouring in, Detroit employed tricks to prop up its sales.
The government used Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prop up the mortgage market.
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Investors in green technology are pleading for intervention to prop up the carbon price.
He thinks devaluation is usually preferable to raising interest rates to prop up a currency.
Is it a story, or simply a structure erected to prop up the score?
The central bank has been forced to drain currency reserves to prop up the Egyptian pound.
The worry is that Japanese officials will use this to prop up ailing companies.
First, the government launched a stimulus programme in 2009 to prop up the economy.
An attempt to prop up Ireland's banks last year sucked deposits out of Britain's.
Germany's schemes to prop up demand for cars and car workers have the same weakness.
To prop up its currency, a government can sell foreign-exchange reserves to buy that currency.
The Central Bank has intervened less to prop up the peso and capital flight is easing.
Investors have relied on the Fed to prop up prices when economic news is dismal.
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Some countries, such as Ireland and Spain, have needed to find money to prop up their banks.
Tempur-Pedic switched to new discounts in efforts to prop up falling sales, though that decision was criticized.
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Unlike Facebook, it can also count on the loyalty of its customers to prop up its stock.
The one that proved Silicon Valley is roaring and ready to prop up the rest of America.
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The central bank was hoping to prop up the rupiah by making it more expensive to sell it.
But when the bubble burst in 2008, the Fed had to step in to prop up the banks.
When Austria took desperate measures to prop up its banking system, its banking crisis only shifted to Germany.
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By taking resources from the new, unborn industries and using it to prop up the old, dying ones.
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To prop up the economy, the central bank has cut interest rates six times since September, to 1.5%.
Outsiders suspect that a chunk of the currency board's reserves are pledged to prop up the banking system.
Meanwhile, Mr Obama's economic team is struggling to find the best way to prop up the financial sector.
These purchases of dollar assets have helped to prop up the greenback and finance America's vast trade deficit.
The Obama team is moving to grab those dollars and use them to prop up its failing insurance exchanges.
In general, governments should not try to prop up prices in inflated markets.
He then fixed wires to prop up his quarry in an animated pose.
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