Word: interim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jean-Marie Doré was sworn in as Guinea's interim Prime Minister Jan. 26, a crucial step toward ending the country's military rule. A critic of the staunch regime, Doré has pledged "free, transparent and credible elections" within the year. An assassination attempt and subsequent exile forced Guinea's unpopular strongman, Moussa Dadis Camara, to allow a civilian interim leader. Some fear he continues to meddle from his base in Burkina Faso...
...when the FDI reached an unprecedented high of 150, most people interpreted that number as just another dry, windy day when the FDI was high again. "Victoria was prepared for a really hot day, but nothing more," said Handmer. The Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission's has already made an interim suggestion of a 'catastrophic' code-red rating for days when the FDI exceeds 100, which was implemented in September...
Then, there’s the simple fact that fewer people are in the Houses. Although a total of 1,316 students were granted January housing, Interim Director of Advising Programs Inge-Lise Ameer said in October that the number of students at Harvard at any given moment would be around 1,000. With a total enrollment of 6,655 students at the College, according to the Registrar’s Office, that means less than one out of every six students has been present at a given time in January...
University administrators have halted or slowed other capital projects, most notably Harvard’s campus expansion across the Charles River. But construction on the Northwest Corner Building proved more expensive to halt than to continue, according to statements by former interim Law School Dean Howell E. Jackson last year...
...Harvard Art Museum and Arnold Arboretum. Law School administrators decided last year to continue construction of HLS' Northwest Corner Building, in spite of University-wide efforts to cut expenditures, because the project would have been more expensive to halt than to continue, according to Law Professor and then-Interim HLS Dean Howell E. Jackson in interviews last year. Administrators did make modest changes to the plan by deciding not to demolish buildings adjacent to the expansion...