While the system was successful, it proved to mostly be a stopgap measure from Nintendo, who had bigger plans in store.

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Is that something that the President would agree to, a stopgap measure?

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More helpfully, the state has intervened to buy long-term electricity contracts to sell on to the less creditworthy utilities, although that still looks something of a stopgap measure.

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As a stopgap measure, tenuous ceasefires can still be useful.

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The move by the Yankees appears to be a brilliant one as a stopgap measure to replace left fielder Brett Gardner, lost for the season due to elbow surgery.

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But contracting for NASA is only a stopgap measure.

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This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people.

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"It's still sort of a Band-Aid, stopgap measure, to keep state regulators at bay until they can come up with a new framework, " agrees Passmore.

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But both Boehner and Gingrich maintained that no stopgap measure would be passed to reopen closed parts of government until there was a balanced-budget plan was completed.

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The debt limit will be raised, the stopgap spending measure currently funding government operations will be replaced by something that avoids a shutdown, and the sequestration provisions of the Budget Control Act will be diluted.

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