Word: stop-gap
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Some of the women she interviewed saw abortion as "a stop-gap measure to protect the livelihood of the [woman] and her family," Halkias said...
While the staff feigns concern about tampant grade inflation, we believe that the current proposal before the Committee on Undergraduate Education is an excellent stop-gap measure...
Gwertzman said the new machine is only a "stop-gap measure" and that this summer, HASCS plans to "redesign its system from the bottom...
...These stop-gap shelters are useful to people who are temporarily between homes, but most homeless people require longer-term solutions, Fels said...
...economic market. Some financial inducements have existed since the 1970s. Common incentives include educational loan forgiveness, adjustments to the relative value of Medicare's payment schedule, and tuition assistance in exchange for service in under-served areas ("Northern Exposure's" Fleischmann takes part in such a program). Barely a stop-gap measure, this kind of solution hardly cuts to the heart of the problem...