Word: stopgaps
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...long-promised Windows overhaul, due months ago, might not even reach consumers by the millennium. The company has apparently just discovered that home users are a huge market; rather than force an industrial-strength operating system on housewives and schoolkids, it will give them a retooled Windows 98 stopgap in the fall. Whoopee...
...These stopgap solutions, though, can only go so far. In the long run, only a student center will alleviate the space shortage for Harvard student groups. Unfortunately, the University doesn't appear to be interested...
...Mahathir's plan, of course, baldly flouts all the IMF's ?- and nearly everyone else?s -- current wisdom on saving Asia. According to their formula, a package of stopgap loans and high internal interest rates can protect the currency and attract foreign capital in the short term by restoring investor confidence. Follow that with swift and painful economic reforms, and recovery should be imminent. But for Mahathir, flipping the Western economic establishment the bird is part of his plan?s allure. The West, Mahathir insists, fears a ascendant Asia, with its large Muslim populations and strong governments, and is gleefully...
...doesn't have much more than $15 billion left," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "It knows that that kind of money would just be a temporary stopgap to support the ruble and pay some wages -- to buy some time." For Russia to have a chance at recovery, the money has to be linked to real reform -- improved tax collection and deep spending cuts...
There were skeptics even then. The little capsules, they warned, were only a stopgap, not the final answer to obesity, which is still handled best by eating less and exercising more. They also pointed to unknown dangers from long-term use as well as evidence suggesting a risk of neurological damage and a rare but fatal lung disease...