Word: stop-gap
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...problems--medical care for the poor, and clinical training for medical students--will not be gained by metaphysical and physical re-construction of the old City Hospital or by construction of a small South End Hospital. The entirely new nature of medical care calls for an abandoning of stop-gap proposals and anachronistic wishes. Boston's citizens and Boston's medical students deserve more than sloppy attempts to avoid some very basic problems...
...Pure tutoring tends to be stop-gap activity; we want to work more closely with the actual causes of today's problems and not with their symptoms," Profit said...
...some, working for McCarthy is a stop-gap measure. "If he loses and then supports Johnson," one Harvard canvasser said "then I'll probably work for the Resistance or the draft union." For others, canvassing has convinced them of the futility of working within the political system. They mention the closed-mindedness, the selfishness, and the apathy of the people they meet...
...changes announced today are at best stop-gap measures. They should not in any way be construed as ending the debate over draft reform. Neither should they be construed as halting our efforts to make the changes recommended by the Marshall Commission and the President's message of last year...
...random selection system, specifically forbidden him by Congress. The irony of the situation is that before the new law, the President could have instituted a random selection system without Congressional approval. But now he must either get Congress to adopt a random selection plan before June or devise a stop-gap system for this year that is both equitable and looks so little like a lottery that it will pass inspection by the House Armed Services Committee, a steadfast opponent of random selection...