Word: stopgaps
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...provide any low-cost day-care centers for university mothers. The fees are phenomenally high," Cornelia F. Worsley '79, said. "I'm not sure the money should be coming from us. The responsibility of RUS is more to talk to Harvard to defray costs: we're doing a stopgap type of thing...
...Nixon and Ford Administrations, which had their own economic troubles with Japan, were generally satisfied with stopgap Japanese restrictions on exports to the U.S. The Carter Administration, to its credit, is taking a different line. Although they have negotiated an "orderly marketing agreement" limiting sales of Japanese color TVs in the U.S., the President and his aides are concentrating not on buying less from Japan but on selling more to it. Strauss wants the Japanese to abolish quotas on agricultural goods and lower tariffs on myriad manufactured products. Says he: "Right now we're getting the worst...
...Like many of the railroads of the world, the Japanese National Railway is on the brink of bankruptcy. Last week the line was barely saved from defaulting on $138 million in debts to 10,000 private companies when it canceled maintenance and construction contracts and received a $138 million stopgap loan from the Finance Ministry. Even so, more huge debts fall due next month, and the government is in no mood for another rescue. The Finance Ministry and private banks, which in the past have generously bailed out the railroad, are opposed to further advances unless the railroad puts through...
...they call each other on and off stage, have worked together since 1938, when they began performing with Judy Holliday at a then-obscure club in New York called the Village Vanguard. "It was very haphazard," Comden reminisced backstage last weekend. "We all thought of the Vanguard as a stopgap. We kept on looking for work," Green came in, almost on cue--the two seem to collaborate even on their conversation: "Suddenly all the reviews, all the seven papers there were in the City, started saying great things. People began coming from all over." But, as the team stressed, analyzing...
...Stopgap Move. In fact, the cutbacks are unlikely to go that far. Beame described his budget as "shock therapy," and it was clearly intended to prod the state legislature into coming through with the $641 million in increased aid and taxing authority that Beame seeks. Last week, in a stopgap move, the state advanced the city $200 million in welfare funds; that will keep the city solvent at least through this week while Beame pursues other means of coming up with the $800 million that the city needs to pay its bills through June and thus avoid a financial last...