Word: stopgaps
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...workers-especially Negroes and teen-agers -for more demanding jobs. More than 125,000 unemployed workers are being retrained, and 275,000 have qualified for federal training grants. Almost three-quarters of those who have completed their training have already been employed by private industry. These programs are, however, stopgap measures at best. The ultimate unemployment solution, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz believes, lies in education. "There is no place in the future society for the uneducated person," he says. "We could put up with them before, but from here...
Packing a committee is a stopgap measure; the House ought to revise the 21-day rule immediately. And while they are at it, the legislators ought to strip the Rules Committee of the power to keep a bill from going to conference after both Houses have approved...
...whole, the British business community felt that the budget could have been worse ("Insidious but less drastic than feared," said the Daily Telegraph), and as a result the London Stock Exchange registered relief with a two-day rise. But the great danger in Labor's stopgap budget is that the deflationary tax increases might seriously reduce incentives in the British economy...
...been twelve years since Ellison published his only novel; for some seven years now, while teaching at various universities, he has been working on his second. While these essays are a notable stopgap in Ellison's career, a necessary breather perhaps, a reader can only hope that there will soon be a sequel to The Invisible Man; for brilliant fiction makes a better case against segregation than the best polemics. As Ellison notes: "I learned very early that in the realm of the imagination all people and their ambitions and interests could meet...
Haussmannian. More than the stopgap panaceas and two-dimensional thinking of much urban renewal, the plan is Haussmannian in scope and architectural in dimension. The council would turn Pennsylvania Avenue into a ceremonial boulevard with distinctive brick paving, bordered by double or triple rows of graceful shade trees, and three-level sidewalks to take the rubbernecking out of parade watching. Constitution Avenue, which now makes a messy, scissorslike intersection with Pennsylvania, would neatly dive beneath...