Word: stopgap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even if more groups were participating, the program would still be a stopgap...
...give up even if you or a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Although there is as yet no cure, and the available drugs are basically stopgap measures, there is still a lot you can do to ensure the best quality of life. Start by having a frank conversation about treatment options, and designate someone as a health-care proxy to make sure those plans are carried out. Most patients with early Alzheimer's can still make good decisions about future care...
Because of a stopgap measure to keep the government running, Congress has until Oct. 21 to get a budget passed or there will be another government shutdown. It is time for the Republicans in Congress to stop playing budget games and start to recognize that the spending caps are unrealistic. Helping people is more important than saving face...
...into the surplus (although that will certainly happen eventually), they?ve tapped $3 billion in unused state welfare money to make some ends meet, which has governors and Democrats screaming mugging. With an October 1 due date for all 13 bills, GOPers are scrambling to draft a stopgap spending bill (to avoid a shutdown) and get those bills on the White House desk in any form ? then at least Republicans can take the fight to him. Initiative like that might have helped with the tax cut, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Before the Republicans were able to agree...
There must be a delicate balance, a distinction between being a source of international justice and merely policing based on one's own agenda. American foreign policy over the past decade, and through it the actions of the United Nations have been frighteningly stopgap, often forced to make ultimatums when a situation springs full-form onto the international stage as a crisis no longer waiting to happen...