Word: stopgap
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...with junior Reka Cserny sent to the sidelines with a bruised sternum and the Leopards creeping back into the game as the second half began, Harvard desperately needed a stopgap to prevent the struggles it has endured all season long with its starting center riding the pine...
...wants to work out in cramped, dusty rooms in basements (where House gyms will still be located), however good the equipment there is. It is vital to recognize—as, to be fair, the administrators who made the announcement did—that this is a stopgap measure at best, and Harvard needs an impressive central recreational athletic facility. Logic and geography dictate that that place should...
...College has three options to remedy the segregation of the Quad. The short-term plan is to preserve the Quad and pursue integration. However, this stopgap approach conflicts financially and geographically with the two longer-term strategies. One of Summers’ proposals is to eliminate the Quad and move all undergraduate housing to the river; alternately, the buildings vacated by FAS sciences and the education school could be converted to undergraduate residences close to the Yard. Summers says reconfiguring that space for Houses would be challenging. “It doesn’t appear that there are feasible...
Since the last contract expired, the union and university have been agreeing to stopgap monthly contracts while negotiating for the long-term...
These are stopgap measures, of course, and no substitute for legislative relief. But the higher drug prices climb, the better such measures...