Word: makeshifts
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Working in makeshift tents or native huts from dawn to dusk-and often later by the headlights of the expedition's only truck-the doctors performed 3,700 operations in an effort to prevent blindness, gave injections and pills to the other thousands who showed symptoms of the disease...
...shortage of building workers, by wage controls that destroy incentive, by cartels that keep material costs high, and by inequitable rent controls (rents have been allowed to go up 40% on prewar houses, while the cost of living has gone up 200% since 1939). Premier Drees' makeshift bill did little to overcome all this. In The Netherlands such difficulties are usually worked out discreetly among the big parties, the Laborites and Catholics, who sit together in the Cabinet (along with the Calvinist Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Christian Historical Union) in a kind of gruff but reasonable coalition...
...change was only a makeshift. After ten more years, library conditions had once again become intolerable. When the Widener family offered to build a new library. University officials painfully decided to demolish Gore but used some of Gore's granite to help build Widener...
...According to a University of Tennessee survey, "an estimated 80% of total in-transit time for air freight is consumed by slow and inefficient ground handling." Only a small number of the major U.S. airports have separate air-freight terminals; most lines process their freight through passenger terminals or makeshift sheds. Furthermore, most cargo planes flying today are not suited to the job, are hard to load and unload, often have high maintenance costs...
...Donham called the present condition of the school "intolerable except as a temporary makeshift." "We need funds at once for construction of buildings to house a school of 1,000 and develope laboratory facilities...