Word: makeshiftness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Croats can ever again live together peaceably. Far more likely: if the U.S. and NATO troops pull out in a year or so, they will leave behind a country split--in fact if not in name--into two or three ethnically monolithic, antagonistic parts where refugees still live in makeshift homes and where war criminals still rule...
...JOHN SWEENEY SAT IN HIS makeshift election headquarters at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City last week, he found himself in a rare position. The avowed rebel of American labor was counting his millions of admirers. Sweeney, 61, the insurgent candidate for president of the AFL-CIO, ticked off some of the army of unions whose support he is counting on: steelworkers, autoworkers, government workers, teamsters, machinists and, most recently, farm workers. His route to this point breaks all convention. Since the confederation known as the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations came together 40 years...
...that these problems will never become an issue. After all, if they found themselves in a "real" emergency, the wise ambulance driver would take the patient to a "real" hospital. However, as long as UHS purports to boast full-service emergency care, and not simply to serve as a makeshift clinic, it should live up to its responsibility to ensure that the patients get immediate and expert care...
...forcing thousands of women and children from towns in northwestern Bosnia and taking captive thousands of men who now face an uncertain fate. But after nearly three dozen failed cease-fires, the latest truce appeared to be holding at week's end. There was, however, a cruel new twist: makeshift natural-gas lines, flowing with the volatile fuel for the first time in months, caused at least two serious explosions in Sarajevo, where Kosevo Hospital set up a special burn unit to handle an expected rise in burn victims...
Most chess matches of this caliber have been held in grand halls, with hushed audiences watching the players onstage. This time Kasparov and Anand pore over the board in a 3-m by 6-m soundproof booth. There are a few choice, $75 seats in the makeshift King's Room overlooking the booth, but the action is livelier in the cheap folding chairs next door, where chess mavens can follow the match via TV or computer. Helped along by animated commentators Maurice Ashley ("E-5? Funky!") and Danny King, amateurs and grand masters alike try to anticipate each move. When...