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Both Obama and the congressional leaders called the meeting "constructive." But it remains unclear whether the United States can prevent itself from heading into steep fiscal tightening partly because the Republican-controlled House of Representatives may not pass a stopgap measure to avert tax hikes on the middle class.

TOKYO - The Diet passed a 3.61 trillion yen ($44 billion) stopgap budget to cover fiscal spending for the first six days of April, with the ruling and opposition parties having failed to agree on a full-scale initial budget before the new fiscal year starts on Sunday.

A continuing resolution-a stopgap measure designed to fund federal departments and agencies through mid-November-failed to pass the House Wednesday after almost all Democrats and many Republicans opposed it.

President Obama was telling a chief executive whopper when he declared Monday that he will reject any stopgap extension of the nation's borrowing limit.

The StopGap Project in Dean Street, Hexham, was given a pounds 281,000 cash injection and a county council grant of pounds 50,000.

The Athamna family became the first recipients of a mud-brick home built by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees as a stopgap measure to help some of Gaza's homeless survive another winter with no reconstruction in sight.

The agency only asked for $1.6 million in stopgap funding.

Former US congressman Bruce Morrison, who secured 48,000 "Morrison Visas" for Irish illegals in the US in the early 1990s, described Ireland's immigration policy as "stopgap and piecemeal".

No 10 had always made clear Mr Sawyers' appointment was a stopgap, in between his post as Ambassador in Cairo and taking up his new job.

According to Alexander Sokol, chief technology officer of NumeriX, "Use the wrong model with overly simplistic assumptions, and you risk ending up with a derivatives valuation that is 10 bid- offered spreads away from their true fair value." NumeriX's mission is to help its customers avoid such mistakes, and perhaps most importantly, to allow clients to properly house and account for new derivatives without having to rely on any stopgap spreadsheet solutions.

As a stopgap, Bush proposed to create a new block grant to the states to fund drug coverage among low-income Medicare recipients.

The accord commits North Korea to freezing and eventually dismantling its current nuclear facilities in exchange for the two reactors and a stopgap supply of fuel oil until one of the reactors begins operating.