Word: stopgap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials have a ready rejoinder: Operation Restore Hope was never intended to be more than a stopgap. Washington originally moved unilaterally because only the U.S. had the power and will to get soldiers on the scene immediately. The mission focused narrowly on saving lives by moving food supplies past the guns of looters, instituting just enough law and order to get that done but leaving the longer-range jobs of pacification and nation building to the U.N. Says Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy who oversaw the political side of the operation: "I compare our mission to taking someone with...
...state. The relocations are coordinated with the Wichita police, who check for outstanding warrants. Project Freedom pays for the initial move, while local congregations agree to assume housing costs and arrange for jobs and education for as long as two years. "It's a stopgap measure," concedes executive director James Copple, who tours the city's rougher neighborhoods on weekend nights wearing a bulletproof vest. "If we have to relocate them, then in some ways we've already lost the battle...
...lawless Mogadishu, where last week a ship loaded with 8,000 tons of food was forced to pay a daily "security fee" of $4,000 until off-loading costs were negotiated. An additional 7,000 tons of food is held hostage in warehouses. But the airlift is only a stopgap. The cure is an end to bloodshed and the beginning of reconciliation...
...there is a similar Peer Maternity Counseling group, I haven't seen it advertised. Why not? Harvard takes the easy way out, that's why. And encourages its students to do the same. By putting its resources and support staff into stopgap measures like abortion counseling, Harvard shows that it cares about appearances. (The administration, perhaps, doesn't want to have to deal with a bunch of pregnant women...
HARVARD STUDENTS ALSO endorse stopgap measures in national social and economic policy. Not entirely, of course. We hear much about "curing the causes of poverty." Phillips Brooks House Association and the Harvard and Neighborhood Development program do admirable work in many aspects of social service...