1.   Educational grants and salary boosts could certainly help the careers of some nurses, but these are stopgap measures.

2.   An increasing block rate would certainly help this summer, but it is just a stopgap measure.

3.   And Harrick probably would have dismissed zone defense as a stopgap measure and stayed with the man-to-man, for all its faults, hoping for improvement through repetition.

4.   And with the right kind of patients, it could be an alternative or successful stopgap measure for heart transplants.

5.   Another stopgap measure would be necessary if lawmakers went beyond the midnight deadline.

6.   As he prepared to leave for Capitol Hill to meet with Republican leaders, though, he left the door open to yet another stopgap measure.

7.   As it became clearer in recent days that it would not happen, he began lobbying for a stopgap measure that would last only two weeks.

8.   At issue is a giant spending bill needed to fund government operations when the current stopgap measure expires Friday.

9.   A proposal to add additional crew time by extending the length of shuttle and Soyuz visits to the station looks mostly like a stopgap measure.

10.   A permanent solution has yet to be found, but a stopgap measure was passed last legislative session that included a controversial statewide property tax.