Word: stopgap
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Admittedly, trees are just a stopgap. Unless a tree is used for lumber, it eventually dies and rots or is burned, releasing whatever CO2 it has absorbed. But since the rapid pace of change may be the greatest danger posed by global warming, stopgaps could be important. If nothing else, reforestation will buy time to put other preventive measures into place...
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his aide and preferred successor, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, was ineligible for the papacy because he was not a Cardinal. As a stopgap, the Cardinal-electors turned to the apparently innocuous Angelo Giuseppi Roncalli, 76. Roncalli, of course, became Pope John XXIII, whose Vatican Council set in motion epochal reforms in the church. But Montini, who was made a Cardinal by John, finally got his turn after John died in 1963, and it was his dogged bureaucratic talents, as Pope Paul VI, that made the sweeping new policies stick. Thus, writes Wilton Wynn...
...executives speculate that the apparent disaster could turn into a valuable laboratory for finding long-run solutions to the networks' financial bind. Forced to experiment with potentially less expensive ways of filling prime time, the networks may discover methods that will last far longer than the strike. Today's stopgap measures may become tomorrow's programming trends. Whether that benefits the viewer remains to be seen...
Meanwhile, Congress grudgingly bowed to the White House last week and approved $8.1 million in humanitarian aid for the rebels. (The package: $4.6 million for food, clothing and medical supplies, along with $3.5 million to deliver the goods.) The stopgap allocation will help sustain the contras until Reagan can ask for fresh military assistance at the end of January. That will be shortly after Central American leaders are scheduled to meet in Costa Rica to determine whether the Sandinistas and the contras have tried in good faith to achieve a cease-fire. If the Sandinistas seem to be stalling, Congress...
...meantime, stopgap measures are in order. While they will by no means solve the fundamental problem of a university which relies too heavily on marginally-qualified TFs, they will help remove the worst features of the current situation...