• The funding will be split between emergency short-term aid, and funding for longer-term reconstruction projects.

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  • Banks have been reluctant to respond, but yet there have been enough mortgages modified to give a pretty clear picture that it is not a long-term cure, only a short-term band-aid.

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  • And he said that in the meantime, those worst affected should get short-term food aid.

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  • It also requires a culture that approaches it as a way of life rather than a short-term band-aid for current business problems.

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  • But that may require the International Monetary Fund - which operates programmes of short-term loans to aid countries in immediate financial difficulties - to change some of the conditions of its lending, which have in the past endorsed financial orthodoxy.

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  • The short-term fix is food aid.

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  • Third, the conference could have come up with some short-term fixes, beyond food aid, to increase farmers' incentives and to cut world prices.

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  • Short-term and long, it would aid the balance of payments, now hit by low metals prices.

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  • Yes, increasing liquidity would aid borrowers in the short-term, but that tactic would only make the debt bomb bigger.

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  • High school students would be tested once, and schools that do not improve in the short term would be granted higher levels of federal aid.

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  • Targacept's pill is more refined, he says, because it binds with a subtype of neuronal nicotinic receptor situated mostly in parts of the brain that process sensory information and aid in learning and short-term memory.

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  • Recognizing that our vaunted AAA credit rating is at stake and a default, of any magnitude, on our debt could be expensive and felt across the globe, raising the debt ceiling strikes me as yet another short-term remedy to put a band-aid on a mounting fiscal deficit as opposed to taking the initial steps towards building long, lasting fiscal reform.

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  • Drastically cutting federal aid could--at least in the short term--dash many kids' college plans.

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  • Also, the report says that a lot of aid in the past has been badly designed: too much reliance on short-term-funding, for instance, causing projects to fail because recurrent expenses cannot be covered.

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