Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another recent, unprecedented example of civil mediation by an official ecclesiastical body occurred earlier this year in the work done by the U. S. Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on the Farm Labor Dispute between California grape growers and workers. The committee of five bishops brought some growers and union representatives together for the first time and effected the first break in the long deadlock through several contractual agreements...
David P. Levin '71 and John H. Petrey '71, members of an ad hoc student group supporting Cesar Chavez' United Farm workers Organizing Committee, presented the petition to Harvard food purchasing agents yesterday...
...inquirer or complainant has applied to the appropriate agency without success, or if the problem involves no one particular agency, the Commission will intercede on his or her behalf, or apply to the Faculty or Faculty Council for an ad hoc arrangement, he said...
...more of that rhetoric." Whether there is a well-formulated policy of repression may be a moot question if many citizens believe it to be so and behave as if such a policy existed and if the government is carrying out activities which could be categorized as ad hoc repression. In the first few months of 1970, increasing frequency of reports concerning the snooping activities of various branches of government has lent credence to fears of a growing repressive apparatus. The disclosure that Internal Revenue Service agents have been checking cards in various libraries and the passage...
Members of the PRG claim that the proposed committees would be "ad hoc, inefficient, self-interested, and out of communication with each other and with the rest of the University...