The first is the administration ordered a temporary waiver of the Jones Act.
There has been talk of the possibility of the president ultimately seeking to form a temporary, technocrat-style administration, the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome reports.
Whether or not the administration puts a temporary stop to deep-water drilling, we can only imagine what effect the added cost of higher premiums for drilling rig insurance and more sophisticated safety equipment is going to be in the months and years ahead.
The administration had earlier proposed providing temporary block grants to states to help cover the drug costs for elderly residents, but lawmakers rejected that plan.
As of Thursday afternoon, The Washington Post reports, the administration is now considering a temporary payroll tax holiday and a permanent extension of the research and development tax credit, both of which would make businesses very happy.
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The superintendent of schools, David Weiss, now has a temporary office inside a school, because the administration building was damaged.
The Clinton Administration perceived the Base Force as a temporary fix, designed largely to avoid precipitous actions in the period of uncertainty following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Obama Administration designed the payroll tax cut as a temporary one-year stimulus (though it did extend it for an extra year).
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On BP, we're told the administration asked BP to stop work on the temporary cap because some scientific questions needed to be answered.
Despite official denials, the administration apparently has been talking about proposing some sort of temporary rebate in the coming months.
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Administration efforts to characterize the current situation as a "temporary liquidity problem" appear strikingly similar to the miscalculations of the Latin American debt crisis in the early 1980s.
Instead, Burman suggested, the administration should enact some of the new tax credits on a temporary basis, say through 2010.
In the conversations with key members of Congress, the administration also has signaled a willingness to embrace the use of National Guard troops as a temporary supplement to airport security.
The Innovation Center has been gearing up with a small core team from within the General Services Administration, and will draw on a pool of experts and creative thinkers from across government using temporary staffing arrangements, multi-agency teams, and others with specialized expertise and skills to address rapid turnaround needs.
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Agency and temporary nursing staff would be reduced, but he said the majority of job cuts would be in management and administration.
The administration is open to reforming trade-remedy laws to make it easier and quicker for firms to get temporary protection from import surges.
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