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...that there are some 10,000 applications available at the App Store, it makes it much harder for new apps to be discovered, some developers say. Brandon Bogle, an engineer and a co-founder of the Blimp Pilots - an ad hoc group of iPhone-app creators, who are otherwise employed as game developers - said its hit app Koi Pond, which sold 600,000 copies, was simply in the right place at the right time. "We were lucky enough to get in on day one, when people could find us. There are so many good apps for the iPhone, the problem...
...tenure cases are confidential. In selecting candidates for tenured positions at Harvard, department members form a committee to discuss the case and make a recommendation, which is then presented to University President Drew G. Faust and University Provost Steven E. Hyman. The president and provost then appoint an ad-hoc committee of top academics in the field to review the case and advise the president on the final decision. The committee further solicits letters from well-established scholars in the field regarding the tenure candidate. Frankel said that something in the ad hoc committee’s deliberations likely tripped...
...Much of what Geithner, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke and Bair have done so far has been to erect ad hoc pillars in the crisis: guaranteeing money-market funds after a run began on them in October; opening the Fed lending windows wide to keep credit from freezing completely; and intervening to wind down big players with a semblance of order, without which we could have seen a retail panic against a Merrill or Wachovia or AIG. As Treasury Secretary, Geithner will play a large role in erecting the last pillar - regulating risk and leverage...
...member of an institution where power and advancement require seniority. Shortly after the election, she lobbied Health Committee chairman Edward Kennedy and majority leader Harry Reid to create a health-reform subcommittee for her to chair and was turned down. Her consolation prize - to head one of three ad hoc task forces that Kennedy has created - would not allow her to put much of a stamp of her own on any final legislation that emerges. And if there's anything a First Lady who became a Senator would understand, it's that opportunities don't always come to those...
...even as these ad hoc partners cry foul, another set of odd allies getting together this weekend in Washington may well prove them wrong. The leaders of the U.K., France, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey and 11 other developed and developing economies are meeting in Washington at the invitation of President George W. Bush. And the main thing these so-called G-20 members are likely to achieve is a declaration of continuing support for the international free-market system. (Read "10 Things to Do with Your Money Right...