Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theater could be either temporary, intended as a stopgap while pool repairs go ahead, or a permanent performing space for Adams House, according to Assistant Tutor Sean Lynn-Jones. He says the prohibitive cost of the pool's restoration--estimated at between $100,000 and $250,000--is the main reason for the plan...
Buoyed by this success, the Gunners in 1988 exhumed some archival material and released a stopgap, extended-play album with such lyrics as "I used to love her/ But I had to kill her"; "Police and niggers, that's right, get out of my way"; and "Immigrants and faggots . . . come to our country and think they'll do as they please/ Like start a mini-Iran, or spread some f ---disease." The record sold 6 million copies...
...bureaucracy to prepare a study of future strategies, Bush and his principal aides have drawn up a list of many of the right questions. But when they make a stab at answers, they have little to offer. The President and other officials argue for retaining NATO, which is a stopgap at best, and a unitary Soviet Union, which is already a thing of the past...
While the overwhelming vote gave the impression of slowing the Soviet free fall precipitated by the Aug. 19 coup, the newly created bodies were ill defined and presented only a stopgap solution. It was impossible to predict how much of a counterforce they would exert against the centrifugal strains unleashed by the Big Bang of the failed coup. As it was, the first act of the State Council, a body made up of Gorbachev and the top officials of 10 republics, was to grant independence to the three Baltic republics. The move, which a mere month ago would have dazzled...
British Prime Minister John Major elaborated an idea first advanced by Turkish President Turgut Ozal for a stopgap solution: U.N.-sanctioned "enclaves" (later changed to "safe havens") inside Iraq where the refugees would be protected from attack by Saddam's forces. The idea, as such, proved difficult for some members of the U.N. Security Council. Such powers as the Soviet Union, China and India feared setting a precedent of intervention in what have always been considered internal affairs that could someday be applied to their treatment of the Baltic republics, Tibet or Kashmir. Washington saw little chance of getting...