"One thing is for certain: there are no short-term fixes," he said.

We just believe that it was a short-term fix.

The therapists they sought out provided only a short-term fix.

Or they can go for short-term, superficial fixes that don't really do the job.

And the Administration, in order to get the money, has to convey there's a short-term fix.

The money is a short-term fix intended to allow the 7,000-member African force to keep operating until the end of the year.

"This is not going to be a short-term fix," he said at a morning news conference in Manhattan.

But the short-term fix obscures a much bigger problem that is of Congress's own making.

Federal and state governments are interested only in a short-term fix.

"He's comfortable from the stretch right now, but I think it's a short-term fix."