Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement that "we should not be too concerned about the permanence of the group," Derek T. Winans '60, a delegate from the Harvard Young Democratic Club, urged permanent proportional representation. Winans stated that his plan would be to give the Forum "substance" and do away with its present ad hoc status. Smith also urged formalization, admitting that "we're lukewarm, waiting to see what develops...
...however, the Administration has not indicated that it will tackle the problems on any comprehensive scale, but will rather deal with specific issues on an ad hoc basis...
...that industrial targets for 1957 would be lowered by nearly 4% on previous planning, with continued emphasis on heavy industry. More important than the substance of Pervukhin's announcement was the principle involved: the Soviet leaders were scrapping the rigid Five-Year-Plan system for a realistic ad hoc economy more in line with the West...
Defenders of the ad hoc system point out that a student may not see his problem as one needing a psychiatrist's help in unravelling and may instead go to the Bureau of Study Counsel. The Bureau, they point out, has a consultant who can give moral support in any borderline cases. It is better, the defenders say, to let a student go on talking to a man he trusts than to lose him altogether...
With his set of moral values destroyed, man then turned to an ad hoc moral standard which is in vogue today. Contemporary man must therefore regain the older type of comprehensive morals without the other aspects of traditional religion which are no longer workable in American society, concluded Handlin...