Others have attempted a more stopgap approach, only to get the blame when services are disrupted.Economists still debate exactly what impact public-sector unions have on pay.
Carol Cooke, a spokeswoman for the American Nurses Association, said that while shift bidding gives nurses more flexibility and helps keep hospital costs down, it is only a stopgap approach to staffing.
Lagarde, in an address to Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington on Tuesday night, blasted the "stopgap" approach U.S. lawmakers have taken to resolving fundamental economic policy disputes with short-term delays and then "back to the drawing board once again".
As the April 8 , 2011 funding deadline for another of these stopgap budgets approached, the new Republican majority in the House threatened to vote against further short-term funding, forcing the shutdown of the federal government if deep budget cuts were not enacted.
The agency's critics were supported by a soil scientist at Cornell University, Murray McBride, who submitted an opinion in June 2005 that the current reliance on capping "seems to me to be a stopgap, short-term approach" that fails to account for the way chromium moves in the soil and may migrate to basements and other exposed areas.
I am all for putting more reporting boots on the ground, but the existential dilemma confronting media will require new answers, not stopgap funds for legacy approaches.
However appealing, this approach may only be a stopgap until online music distribution completely replaces CD's.
The enormous depth, with its low temperatures and high pressure, greatly complicates planning and execution and could cause the approach to fail, just as earlier stopgap efforts like a large containment dome did not work.
In a tearful news conference, he said the government had used "flexible approaches" to laws and regulations, and only "stopgap measures" that were "delaying the end" of the nuclear crisis.
Try these teas as a precautionary stopgap when you feel the nausea coming on: Chamomile.
