Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...proposal, the city would donate land to the Affordable Housing Trust Board, which would work with neighborhood groups to solicit proposals from developers and decide what type of housing is to be built. Currently the board can only allocate tax money from commercial development, which is used to give "stopgap" loans to developers working on low-income housing projects...
...costing $46 million a day), and rising fuel costs have rendered one new source of revenue, an energy tax, politically unpalatable. As a result, both sides agree, the most that the deficit can be cut is $30 billion to $40 billion. They are thus more likely to reach for stopgap solutions, deferring hard choices until after the November elections. Among the possibilities they will consider...
...Last week Sharon was rebuffed by Israel's Supreme Court, which ruled against his plan to circumvent the parliament. And he was dealt another setback when Minister of Tourism Gideon Patt rejected a plan to use hotels, youth hostels and army camps for emergency shelters. Patt complained that such stopgap methods would help only 500 families, not the 7,000 a month who need housing...
...prepare for the worst. They banked orange, lemon and grapefruit trees with extra dirt and fired up smudge pots to raise the temperature in their groves. But the cold snap -- with wind-chill temperatures of -5 degrees F as far south as Orlando -- lasted too long for such stopgap measures. Many strawberry, orange and grapefruit crops were completely ruined. Said Ben Abbitt, general manager of the Haines City Citrus Growers Association, Florida's biggest orange producer: "Mother Nature took us to the woodshed and kept us there three long nights...
...precipitately, since virtually all leaders in the West and even some in the East agree that the alliance is necessary to help handle the dislocations, instabilities and potential conflicts that are almost sure to attend the disintegration of communist rule in the East. But NATO is at best a stopgap until something more up-to-date and effective can be devised to take its place. The Western alliance was invented to maintain the standoff between two giant blocs. But the great ideological divide of the Iron Curtain is giving way to messier divisions among nation-states and nationalities within states...