"They were offered the plane, a trip, whatever they wanted," said Aleksandr V. Machevsky, a spokesman for the Kremlin who spent the entire crisis at the makeshift commander center.
Finally, this crisis cannot be fixed with makeshift repairs, no more than a boat with a rotten hull can be fixed with ad-hoc patches.
So it was on the serious matters of the state budget, being finished amid a growing fiscal crisis, that the governor's makeshift staff hoped to establish his bona fides.
In the midst of a humanitarian crisis, the militia sets up makeshift roadblocks, stopping even UN vehicles.
But the cutoff of the vital systems appeared to support fears by some experts and critics that the plant remains dangerous in part because some vital safety systems were makeshift fixes devised at the height of the nuclear crisis.
Haiti and its international donors are far behind in helping the hundreds of thousands still living in makeshift camps and the millions without formal jobs, a crisis worsened by a political stalemate that has blocked Haiti's new president, Michel Martelly, from forming a new government more than 100 days after taking office.
Nowhere is the crisis more blatantly obvious than at these bleak, makeshift border crossings, manned on both sides by menacing gunmen.
In some neighborhoods, residents expressed hope and relief that the five-month crisis was now over, and Mr. Ouattara told reporters at his makeshift hotel-headquarters here that he would get immediately to work restoring the country.
Crews in hard hats and orange jumpsuits have started dismantling the makeshift camp in Calais that has become a symbol of Europe's refugee crisis, as thousands of people remained there waiting to be relocated.
As a result of a defensive injury crisis at the club, Carrick started the 2012 13 season as a makeshift centre-back.
