Word: stop-gap
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...congressional watchdogs claim that when EPA finally does tackle a waste site, it seeks only a stop-gap solution to the chemical seepage. When a dump is cleaned up, its wastes are often merely shifted to other locales, "which themselves may become Superfund sites," the OTA report says. "Risks are often transferred from one community to another and to future generations...
...fundamental problem, the skewed system of grading that makes 87 percent of all grades in courses here B-minus or better, and that creates standards that vary widely from department to department. Until the problems relating to grading are corrected at Harvard, any system for awarding honors will be stop-gap at best...
...seemed, in fact, that the universities had timed their efforts to coincide with the Reagan revolution. Paring federal subsidies and waving his magic wand over the private sector, the new president called upon corporations to fill the gaps his budget cuts would leave. But stop-gap efforts to shore up eroding endowments are not the cure-all the prophets of creative altruism might suppose...
Although astronauts drink potassiumrien Tang to counteract their loss of the mineral in space. Morre-ede says the mineral supplements are often insufficient and a mere stop-gap to a problem experiments may solve...
...most agreed that Dean Rosovsky and the Faculty Council will soon approve the recommendations; Landes himself noted he accepted the two-year "stop-gap" chairmanship with the expectation that his committee's suggestions would soon become reality...