Word: stopgaps
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...into the surplus (although that will certainly happen eventually), they?ve tapped $3 billion in unused state welfare money to make some ends meet, which has governors and Democrats screaming mugging. With an October 1 due date for all 13 bills, GOPers are scrambling to draft a stopgap spending bill (to avoid a shutdown) and get those bills on the White House desk in any form ? then at least Republicans can take the fight to him. Initiative like that might have helped with the tax cut, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Before the Republicans were able to agree...
There must be a delicate balance, a distinction between being a source of international justice and merely policing based on one's own agenda. American foreign policy over the past decade, and through it the actions of the United Nations have been frighteningly stopgap, often forced to make ultimatums when a situation springs full-form onto the international stage as a crisis no longer waiting to happen...
...after China shot a handful missiles into the ocean just off Taiwan?s shore. For now, the U.S. seems prepared to let Lee have his fun without joining in ? especially in the middle of talks over the Chinese embassy bombing. The State Department quickly declared that the "One China" stopgap was still on. "This is tricky for the U.S.," says Dowell. "They want to support Taiwan?s democratic government and capitalist economy, but this is so dear to China?s heart that jumping in would be very bad for relations." To calm them down, the U.S. might send the communists...
Permatemps got their start after the vast restructurings of the past decade, when slimmed-down companies found themselves shorthanded as business picked up. Initially they were reluctant to hire full-time workers in case business turned down again. But "hiring qualified temporary employees has evolved from a stopgap measure to a competitive imperative," said Brian Bohling, a senior vice president at staffing giant CDI Corp. in a report, The New Nomads. Besides saving money on benefits, firms prize the flexibility of keeping only a small core of full-timers and ramping up for specific projects. Silicon Valley, with...
...much in the way of reform, but he was predictable," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The response of the market is the initial feeling of the panic at the void of the unknown opening up in front of them." Primakov had just secured a $4.5 billion stopgap loan from the IMF; that will have to be renegotiated, as will Russia's aid arrangements with the World Bank. Now that the Russian parliament is bracing for another round of reject-the-nominee and Moscow leadership is a vacuum once more, Europe is just waiting for the bleeding...