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...with the Middle East. When the price of oil for the nine nations of the Common Market leaped by $25 billion a year ago, the Continent nearly panicked. Recycling petrodollars-that is, borrowing money back from the oil producers to buy yet more petroleum from them-was clearly a stopgap. Europeans soon realized that the only solution was to pay for the oil by selling more goods and services to the oil-exporting nations, but many economists were afraid that the mostly pre-industrial producing countries simply could not buy in sufficient volume...
...Brad (Jon Cypher) tracks Betty to her motel room and concludes that she is either having an affair or a breakdown. Unequipped to deal with either possibility, he has one stopgap measure: he wants to join up with a clan of swingers and swappers. Betty, usually a glutton for punishment, draws the line. The last scene shows her taking one of the two family cars and heading for an uncertain dawn. That she picks the station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the side to drive off in does not bode well for the future...
...Venezuela's legislature, Pérez has issued more than 100 decrees in the past nine months aimed primarily at creating jobs for the some 600,000 Venezuelans (nearly 20% of the work force) who are either unemployed or underemployed. Some of the measures are obviously stopgap. To create immediate job openings, for example, the government decreed that all automatic elevators be manned by operators and that all public restrooms be staffed by attendants. In addition to such piecemeal legislation, however, Pérez launched several ambitious long-term projects designed to curb unemployment by diversifying the economy...
...however, was unenthusiastic about Witteveen's proposals. Treasury Secretary Simon opposes new recycling schemes, regarding them as stopgap measures. They can do no more than delay the day when the oil importers face the reality that they can no longer afford to pay the cartel's price. After all, the money that OPEC channels into a recycling facility is not donated; it is lent and must be repaid?with interest...
...Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization is coordinating an airlift to bring more than 400,000 tons of grain to the stricken nations. This is a stopgap measure at best. U.S. officials in Dakar estimate that grain gifts may have to continue for another 30 years. They also believe that it may take three decades to build irrigation and reforestation projects to contain the desert-assuming that the poverty-stricken sub-Saharan nations can find the billions necessary...