Word: stop-gap
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...subsidized housing project, of course, cannot rise overnight, and stop-gap measures are needed now. But high on the list of any new building plans should be a housing development with rents inside the range of married students' bank accounts...
Emergency programs of a few weeks' duration must be recognized for what they are -- "a stop-gap measure that ameliorates somewhat the bad effects of introducing persons without adequate preparation into teaching, but which in no way assures the basic professional competence a teacher needs," he noted...
Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, said that the action "is certainly just a stop-gap measure to relieve the present terrific overcrowding. I have no worry at all that this would pinch-hit for another House...
...Hill measure would empower the Federal Government to spend $500 million a year on school construction for the next two years. That figure represents at best a stop-gap solution, but it is a start in the right direction and should provide grants until the national conference evolves a long term solution...
Hugh Ferry had merely taken the presidency as a stop-gap after President George Christopher quit in a huff (TIME, Aug. 28, 1950). The quarreling stockholder factions who forced Christopher out have been wrangling ever since, but last week they finally agreed on a president: James J. Nance, 51, president of G.E.'s Hotpoint...