Most people find PROP and PTC bitter, but not unbearable, while others don't taste it at all.
The Arab world is not like eastern Europe two decades ago, when repressive regimes tumbled because ordinary people suddenly dislodged the prop of Soviet power.
We wanted a heritage feel like Penguin Books and the Underground signs.... We discussed how we wanted it to be something people would be happy to prop up on a mantel or keep in a box.
There's vast evidence that demonstrates that Iran has been engaged in an effort to prop up Assad as he brutally murders his own people.
But just as it restricts the rights of its own people, the Iranian government continues to prop up a dictator in Damascus and supports terrorist groups abroad.
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Another common test, which can be purchased online, is to give people a particularly bitter chemical such as PROP or PTC, which are similar to a compound found in many dark-green vegetables.
Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the main opposition party, argues that Mr Kuchma's arrest is no more than a PR stunt designed to distract people from their economic woes and to prop up Mr Yanukovich's sagging popularity.
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Known as proposition bets (or "prop bets, " in Vegas lingo), they allow people to lay down money on anything from the length of the national anthem to whether either team will score a two-point safety.
SHANGHAI China is considering setting up a new way for foreign pension funds to invest in its vast capital markets, according to people familiar with the matter, its latest effort to prop up the country's listless stock market.
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The suffering of the people of New Jersey and New York was simply a convenient prop for political theater a rare chance for the President to appear presidential.
And when you talk about the working man, I think people can relate to yours truly as a guy who could easily prop up the bar in the local pub or rub shoulders with statesmen around the world.
Stevens, a California native, suggested that successful business people may even reconsider the state as a place to live if Prop. 30 is passed, arguing that some may find it easier to live elsewhere where state income taxes are lower.
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No vast prop trading, just the simple fact that the banks have lent too much money to people who now cannot pay it back.
Jones said he believes the passage of Prop 8 along with the celluloid version of Milk's story helped galvanize a new generation of people to campaign for gay rights.
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