Neither Congress nor the Senate are likely to do any real business now until after Christmas, meaning there is little chance of getting anything more than a very short-term stop-gap into the statute books by 1 January.
"It's going to be a very short stop-gap, " said Andrew Sullivan, analyst at Piper Jaffray.
"We changed the strategy, thinking that we should be able to maintain the lead even at the second stop, so we short-fuelled in the first pit stop and started the second stint ahead of Kimi, " he said.
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Back in 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that using continuing resolutions to deal with the budget resulted in "inefficient, start-and-stop management" through short-term contacts.
The government would consider dismantling "the targets in disguise" - such as Key Performance Indicators - and would stop burdening forces with short-term "initiatives and gimmicks", she said.
But the measure would stop short -- for now -- of sanctioning any unilateral U.S. military strike against Iraq.
The Vietnamese legal indictment cites a May 2010 Chinese diplomatic request for joint action to stop short-wave transmissions into China by the accused pair, who were detained two weeks after the date of the memo.
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Also use utmost caution if considering short-term temporary health coverage intended as a stop-gap measure.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta, for instance, is a low-circulation paper, and the large-circulation Izvestiya and Komsomolskaya Pravda, while treading a fine line between observation and scepticism, stop short of hard-hitting attacks on Mr Putin.
The first signs of a short-term low would likely be when stocks stop declining on worse-than-expected economic news.
To stop at the alleged creeping totalitarianism of progressive thought-policing is to stop short of the crucial question: why would something like this be happening?
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Banning short-selling was supposed to stop the free fall in financial stocks by making it impossible for traders to pile on.
In the past, the agency has been flooded with letters from ordinary investors begging it to put a stop to naked short-selling.
One should also not stop with the short-run effects of the minimum wage but trace out the longer-run effects on the number of jobs and unemployment rates for affected workers.
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Recent opinion polls show that many people still hanker after the tune of the old Soviet anthem - a much jauntier affair than the Glinka - but would stop short of reinstating the old words.
But the secretary, who is the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), seemed to stop short of a broad and permanent fix to the way Wall Street is regulated--something others on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have demanded.
The SEC banned short-selling in financial stocks in mid-September in an attempt to stop the meltdown in the sector from taking out more companies.
After all is said and done, we may be heading into choppy waters, but in the end, both the United States and China will pursue economic policies that they believe are in their own best interests, but will stop short of launching a full-blown currency war.
The populism and short-sightedness of its regulators and politicians must not stop California from getting there too.
The lenders are granting short-term bridge loans to help service its debt, and stop shedding jobs.
But you go on to suggest that central bankers are powerless to stop the development of asset-price bubbles short of a blunt interest-rate increase.
Short-lived disruptions like relatively brief power failures and moderate earthquakes can stop production for days.
Israel said it launched the offensive in Gaza to stop the firing of rockets -- primarily the short-range homemade Qassam rockets -- from the territory into southern Israel by Hamas fighters.
Similarly, for a short position that has become very profitable, you may move your stop-buy order from loss to the profit zone in order to protect your gain.
Short of imposing Chinese-style firewalls and censorship, free countries cannot consistently stop their citizens finding out what their enemies tell them, including tales of the shadowy, sordid or sensational deeds done in their names.
John Gunn, head of AIMS, said it was difficult to stop the storms and bleaching but researchers could focus their short-term efforts on the crown-of-thorns starfish, which feasts on coral polyps and can devastate reef cover.
With most of the funds tied up in long-term assets, that could leave the banks short of cash if investors stop buying new products.
Once again, Congress failed to stop the annual charade of scheduled Medicare physician payment cuts and short-term patches, which spends more taxpayer money to perpetuate a policy everyone agrees is fatally flawed.
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They had plans to stop on the 8-hour drive just a few hours short of the prison destination so he could have time to spare when he was due to show up before noon on Monday.
Having not seen every single all-in-one PC that's ever been released, we'll stop short of saying the InFocus BigTouch is the largest AiO ever to grace the Earth.
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