Word: stopgap
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...Because next week, Bush's stay of execution - the order to western states to funnel their surplus electricity to California lightbulbs - runs out, and you can bet the folks in Oregon, Washington and Idaho won't be doing it voluntarily. The trick for Davis, in his haste to cut stopgap deals, will be to avoid paying prices that are an expensive embarrassment five years down the road...
...although Likud is behind Sharon, the truth is that they hadn't actually planned to put him up as a candidate for prime minister. This election, remember, was not scheduled; it was called in extraordinary circumstances. Sharon had been given the party leadership as a stopgap option, to avoid a power struggle between the would-be candidates for party leader. So it's likely that when the next general election comes - by 2003 at the latest, or a lot earlier if Sharon's government collapses - Sharon will be challenged for the leadership of Likud...
Bush's senior economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, has the task of figuring out what to do about California. One stopgap: renew the Clinton Administration's order that power and gas companies across the country transfer their excess capacity to the Golden State. But diplomacy may be the most effective arrow in Bush's quiver. He plans to place energy on the national-security agenda and lobby OPEC to pump more oil. Although the cartel last week announced production cuts, which pushed prices higher, some key members, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, remain grateful to Bush's father for winning...
When friends are separated, staying in touch by phone or mail is an important stopgap, but to keep a friendship vibrant, there's no substitute for being there, at least from time to time. Says Friendshifts author Yager: "If you watch children and teenagers, you see that we knew what to do when we were younger. You hung out with friends and did stuff together. It's important to share experiences, to create memories, to bond the relationship. You're not going to say in 10 years, 'Remember that great phone conversation we had?' or 'Remember those wonderful e-mails...
...overflow space in the face of the lamentable overcrowding that all Houses in the College have to endure, they have served a much needed stopgap purpose at least," Graham writes in an e-mail message. "Of course, few of us want the need for such stopgap measures to continue...