crash program

noun

a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem:
a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.

First recorded in 1945–50

In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.

At the same time a crash program to develop a counter to it is already showing promising results.

But a crash program for time travel, now that was something else.

A crash program for the development of the projector is already under way.

We must not return to the "crash-program" psychology of the past when each new feint by the Communists was responded to in panic.

In theory, such a crash program, with Jason Wall's money and industrial know-how behind it, was a possibility.

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