A Piecemeal Operation As White House officials put together plans in the spring of 2003 for President Bush to land on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and declare the end of major combat operations in Iraq, the Pentagon decided to make a similar, if less dramatic, announcement for Afghanistan.
Grant-hunting is more of a piecemeal operation, but in recent months, the issue of pursuing federal and state grants more effectively and aggressively has captured the attention of Nassau County legislators, leaders of social-service agencies and members of the state board charged with overseeing the county's finances.
During an interview last week, Mr. Gorman and Mr. Chammah acknowledged that Morgan Stanley would probably have to build its consumer banking operation piecemeal.
As part of its effort to thwart International Specialty, Dexter moved forward last week with a piecemeal sale of its operations.
This process is termed piecemeal microautophagy of the nucleus (PMN).
CanWest has tightly integrated its publishing operation, centralizing some operations like the design of pages, making piecemeal sales unlikely.
One is a bundling program, in which Medicare would pay hospitals a set fee for certain operations or chronic illnesses, rather than paying piecemeal for every aspect of the treatment.
Ohe's take on the T logo works in both holistic and piecemeal ways, but he admitted that it was "chance operation".
Too often, activities remain small-scale, localized and isolated, as actors lack the capacity, resources or incentives to scale up their operations, replicate them elsewhere, or deliver more than piecemeal change.
We want to make sure that transition takes place not in a piecemeal fashion, not because country A or country B that has operations in a particular area decides it's time, but because the conditions have been established and agreed.
