Word: stop-gap
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...Stop-Gap Remedy...
After the presentation, Director of Emergency Services Philip Mangano praised the PBHA program and others like it, but told the council that shelters are a stop-gap remedy for a problem caused by the shortage of affordable housing...
...stop-gap response to the dearth of women and minority faculty members here, for example, Harvard can establish a program that offers minority and women scholars visiting one- or two-year research and teaching positions. Although everyone agrees that this is not a permanent solution to the problem, it would certainly be a positive step...
...supplemental budget passed by the Senate is a stop-gap measure intended to pay some accounts, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children and general relief, through mid-June with the other unfunded matters to be considered later...
...agenda is Washington's aggressive new approach to the debt problem. Until last week, the Administration was seemingly content to go along with the IMF's stop-gap strategy of extending short-term loans and imposing painful belt-tightening programs on Third World nations. Sensing that those countries are being crushed by their debt burdens, the U.S. now believes that their only hope lies in faster economic growth. To achieve that goal, Washington thinks the IMF should enlist the help of the World Bank, a cash-rich agency that has largely remained aloof from the debt thicket. The Administration wants...