Word: makeshift
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Three Harvard graduate students were rescued Monday morning after being stranded in neck deep snow and spending the night in a makeshift shelter on Mt. Lafayette in New Hampshire...
With the coming of night, the group decided to erect a makeshift shelter and hunker down on their backpacks to sleep...
...bloody confrontation between the police and the army?for 30 years the country's dominant institution?is depressingly symbolic of the chaos at the center of the nation. Since Suharto fell in 1998, Indonesia has been governed under a makeshift political system that is neither parliamentary nor presidential and in which the two halves are fighting for dominance. On Feb. 1, the parliament voted overwhelmingly to begin impeachment proceedings, a complex and untried process that is supposed to culminate some time before August...
...fear is still very much in the air. It's almost impossible to find a car in the city that doesn't fly a red ribbon or piece of cloth from its antenna or wing mirror, a sign of loyalty to the Dayak cause. Neighborhoods remain blocked by makeshift barricades of logs and stones...
...well on its way to overtaking China as the world's most populous nation. Even before the numbers are in, everything about this count has been gigantic and controversial. The government dispatched some 2 million enumerators, or clerks, across the country to visit every village and household, including the makeshift dwellings of India's urban slums...