Word: stopgaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas gained power, he suspended the sweeping land-reform program under which the old regime expropriated a fifth (1,600,000 acres) of Guatemala's arable land and handed it over to 83,275 landless peasants. Last week the new President laid down a stopgap program of his own for dealing with the most explosive of Guatemala's problems. Drawn up by Jorge Skinner Klee, 32, a lawyer who took postgraduate work (in anthropology) at Northwestern, the President's decree appears to accept land reform in Guatemala as a necessity, and undertakes to consolidate...
...important as the fact that Sino-Japanese trade would also strengthen Japan. Said Kumaichi Yamamoto, a conservative ex-diplomat and now head of the Japan-Red China Trade Promotion Society: "We are moving inevitably towards increased trade with China. This cannot be prevented by the Americans with stopgap money grants or any other kind of economic aid. The U.S. should realize that she stands to gain more by supporting trade instead of thwarting...
...reserves. In a pinch, they can cut the number of short-term Treasury bills sold each week (normally $1.5 billion), meet day-to-day expenses by dipping into the Treasury's $5 billion in cash balance and its $1 billion reserve of gold bullion. But both are only stopgap maneuvers...
...reasons, and within those areas the test groups will be picked the same way. Estimated cost of the program: $7,500,000 of $26.5 million which the foundation has earmarked for polio prevention. The rest of the money will go for gamma globulin, which O'Connor calls "a stopgap measure" because it can only make polio less severe, not prevent...
Narrowing Aid. Unemployment has risen to an estimated 40,000. Capital-improvements expenditures, the seed corn of Israel's future, dropped 8% last year, as the government desperately diverted foreign aid from long-term investments to stopgap purchases of wheat and fish...