Word: hoc
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...reorganized graduate student council may face a conflict with an ad hoc minority admissions group over student representation to a new Council on Graduate Education subcommittee, the chairman of the student council said yesterday...
...fact that pieces of Carter's program will go to eight or more committees (including Ways and Means, Commerce, Banking, Interior, Science and Technology, and Public Works). To make sure the House produces a comprehensive bill, O'Neill has created yet another committee-the Ad Hoc Committee on Energy. Normally, the regular committees would send their recommendations to the floor piecemeal, but the Ad Hoc Committee will package all of the recommendations into one omnibus bill. More important, perhaps, the new committee will have the power to offer its own amendments to the basic bill, and could even...
...capacity. It is also possible, the author argues, that the Führer possessed a familiar characteristic of heads of state-a conscious desire "not to know", what in a later era was called deniability. "My own hypothesis," says Irving, "is that the killing was partly of an ad hoc nature ... chosen by the middle-level authorities in the eastern territories overrun by the Nazis, and partly a cynical extrapolation by the central SS authorities of Hitler's anti-Semitic decrees." Hitler, the author insists, had wanted to settle the "Jewish question" by relocating Jews in Africa or Madagascar...
This casual inwardness has not prevented an ad hoc caste system from forming. Those who railed against privilege only a few years ago now hustle after keys to the best private clubs. After only ten years, Los Angeles' recording industry is hardly mature, but its A-B-C social listings may be more rigid than that of the film community...
DECADES OF TRADITION and the structure of the selection process itself make it difficult to pay much immediate attention to teaching ability. The ad hoc committees for tenure are usually composed of President Bok, Rosovsky and two experts in each candidate's field from outside the University. David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology and a member of the Task Force on Pedagogical Improvement, said last month that the opinions of the outside experts are very influential and "guarantee that people get tenure only if they publish books that outsiders read." He said that he remains very skeptical about how much...