Word: stop-gap
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...draft was meant to fall on all young men equally, not to serve as a stop-gap prod to enlistment. Many young men can today avoid military service. The full needs of the Armed services were met last year with 507,000 draftees and volunteers out of a pool of one million of draft age. The pool will get larger and larger, and those drafted or volunteering will be a smaller proportion than they...
...flexibility was the one saving grace of the proposal, for it at least permitted the United States to act with speed and decisiveness. In limiting the President's authority in the field of foreign aid, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has voided his power to make long-term commitments, stop-gap emergency gifts, and loans to countries which hesitate to accept private investments from American companies. In order to receive aid, a country like Iran would have to allow the return of those American oil companies which it previously expelled. The committee halved the $40 million the President desired...
...Stop-Gap Plan...
Such a conference could be at least as significant as last week's meeting on secondary schools; for while the public schools' difficulties are immediate, demanding stop-gap action, the seriousness of the universities' difficulties will not appear for another five years. The conference's recommendations, as a result, will not only be preventive, but they will be able to set the course of college education for years to come...
...official, who did not want his name used, said that the program, designed as a stop-gap measure to relieve the "critical shortage" of nuclear engineers, would consist of four parts...