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.
Also use utmost caution if considering short-term temporary health coverage intended as a stop-gap measure.
The first signs of a short-term low would likely be when stocks stop declining on worse-than-expected economic news.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Malaysia has only recently started to shed a questionable reputation it acquired after former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad tried to stop money from leaving the country during the Asian financial crisis in 1997 by imposing short-term capital controls.
Wage stickiness could stop inflation falling much below 2%, and could justify the expectation of many economists that short-term interest rates will fall no lower than 2.75%.
There also are funds that offer one-stop-shop exposure to a variety of strategies traditionally associated with hedge funds, including long-short equity or nontraditional bond strategies.
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The interbank market tried in vain to trigger stop-losses sub-1.3460, ran smack into central bank support, got themselves short and now have been chasing the EUR higher ever since.
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