Word: makeshift
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Sanding a doorframe, Hopkins seems at home in the Mount Auburn Street construction site, with its boarded-up windows and makeshift plywood door...
...house, it was still the biggest in America when Adams moved in on Nov. 1, 1800. His arrival at about noon from Philadelphia caused little stir when he came down Pennsylvania Avenue in a nondescript carriage, one manservant on horseback behind him. Adams did some routine work in a makeshift office on the first floor of the still unfinished structure, ate supper, then took a candle to make his way up a servants' winding staircase to his bedroom. The main staircase was not finished...
Berlitz schools, they are not. Along Quito's busy Avenida Amazonas, schools operate out of makeshift storefronts and converted homes. "We don't assure fluency, only that you will learn enough to get around," says Francisco Pastor, director of Academia Equinoccial. The regimen of four or five hours of daily classes plus afternoon, Spanish-only outings with instructors brings special meaning to "total immersion," often leaving the student exhausted by dinnertime, just when his host family is eager to engage him in small talk. "Listening was the hardest thing for me," says John Hale, 43, who studied in Quito with...
...Boston that builds Internet businesses with traditional companies, to make the change. When he started Galt Technologies in 1993 in an old warehouse in the Oakland district of Pittsburgh, Pa., Frasca wanted a "really cool" open design. "Within two months," he says, "all the employees had built their own makeshift barriers, using bookshelves, whiteboard, coatracks and Pier 1 folding screens. I quickly realized that while CEOs and marketing directors love the marketing ploy of high-tech cool, it doesn't work." His current space at IVW, which he founded in December 1999, provides lots of offices and high, podlike cubes...
...Bargeil's been in Cambridge for about a month, living at a makeshift campsite down by the Charles River. According to the Massachusetts State Police, about 10 people live at the campsite...