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jury rig
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jury rig [′ju̇r·ē ‚rig]
(mining engineering)
Any makeshift or temporary device, rig, or piece of equipment.


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Accordingly, as part of the jury-rigging to gain support for passage, many in Congress are pushing what amounts to corporate welfare to pay employers not to damp retirees into the new public entitlement.
In fact, prospective readers of Net Attitude are advised to skip directly to these instead of lingering on earlier chapters, which offer little more than slogans and disturbing glimpses into Patrick's life of Internet-enabled picture frames, online light-bulb forums, "pepper-ball" filling and jury-rigging hotel telephone lines for low-speed email access.
Pentagon officials said President Saddam Hussein's forces were jury-rigging surface-to-air missile sites from parts salvaged from last week's attacks, and that as many as four sites appeared to be back in operation.
 
 
 
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