Word: stopgaps
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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...
...said Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker. "We have to be more creative." But the finance ministers have already signed away all their powers to the ECB. And though speculators' hearts raced Friday after a sorrowful Duisenberg hinted at a euro-buying intervention to goose demand, such moves are usually stopgap measures at best. Long-term, there's not a whole lot Duisenberg can do except wait for Greenspan's rate-hike medicine to take effect in the U.S., because it's the U.S.' supercharged economy - 4.5 percent annual growth to Europe's 3.4 percent - that's the most visible culprit...
...only way to slow it down, almost every scientist agrees, is to restructure the way we produce energy. Such stopgap measures as insulation, carpooling and energy-efficient light bulbs are all useful ways to begin curbing the burning of carbon-rich fossil fuels. But in the long run, as the world's population continues to increase and living standards rise, these measures will not be enough...