Word: stopgaps
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...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...
...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...