Word: stopgaps
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Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister, seems to have yielded scarcely an inch to make a stopgap, face-saving Berlin solution possible. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter of the United States, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd of Britain and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville of France have stood firm on their starting positions...
...companies from $319 million this year to $500 million. The bill had the endorsement of 34 life insurance companies who write 70% of U.S. life insurance. They would have had to pay even more under an old tax formula, which was to take effect again this year when current stopgap formulas expire...
...Said one beard, explaining why he rejected a girl's advances: "At the time, I was going with my wife." Beatniks prefer not to work, and when forced to, try to find employment suitable to their talents -such as deodorant testing for cosmetics firms. Shoplifting is only a stopgap...
...secret talks will pivot around more limited objectives--a stopgap agreement in the explosive Berlin crisis and an agreement for a parley at the summit...
...There have been some cases of priests who left the church and tried to marry Protestants (one notable example: the late, reactionary Cardinal Segura's onetime private secretary, now an Anglican). These ex-priests never get permission for a civil ceremony, but Protestant pastors have worked out a stopgap solution: a private Protestant ceremony performed before a notary public. This has no legal validity whatever, only serves to put the ceremony on record...