Word: make-shift
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Therefore, when governments look around for new ways of raising money, their efforts are characterized less by statesmanship than by a desire to find the form of taxation most palatable politically. Most state and local taxes are thus make-shift, time-serving devices, and as the need for expenditures grows greater, many cities and states are paying the price in financial crises like those in New York City and Michigan. Until the politicians stop trying to please everyone at once and instead institute broad tax reforms and increases (as Rockefeller has started to do in New York State), the financial...
Dixie remains the most universally popular jazz form, either as an end in itself, or the first step towards "intellectual" jazz. Yet the remnants of this era--the few dixie bands centered at Harvard and the musicians who play in make-shift Combos--find Cambridge surprisingly cool to straight Dixieland, at least job-wise. Herb Gardner's Royal Garden Six, for example, has four Harvard members, yet seldom plays in town. "Around here anyone who wants six pieces wants a dance band; so we play Dartmouth and RPI--mostly frat parties. Dixie fits in a frat...
...Very few couples are able to secure space in the limited Harvard projects, and private apartments are often expensive, small, and far from the Square. Although most married students can put together some money and imagination to convert their garrets into livable quarters, present University policy is about as make-shift as the apartments themselves...
Although unable to place a man higher than third, the Crimson freshmen also managed to come home with a win. The Yardlings had 33 points, Brown 39, and a make-shift B.U. squad...
...problem, the University has not assumed any degree of leadership. Although Harvard contributes 2,100 of the 6,400 cars parked in the vicinity of the Square every day, it has not shared responsibility for clearing up the parking tangle. The opening of the Business School lot was a make-shift solution that has not solved the main problem...