Word: hoc
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However, Vazquez gives a different account of his conversation with Shinagel. He said, "I submitted two written complaints. One to the ad hoc committee (in the Summer School to review refund cases) and one to the Administrative Board. When he told me to do that (submit a written complaint), I told him that I had in fact already submitted those letters. He then said, 'Well I stand by the decision of my colleagues...
...Federal District Court Judge Ellen B. Burns ruled, after examining the evidence, that no sexual proposition was made, that Price's course grade was not affected by anything other than an evaluation of her academic performance, and that the manner in which Yale dealt with the complaint, while ad hoc, was appropriate. William Doyle, attorney for Yale University, said yesterday...
...John Ahlgren advertised "free legal services for people hit by falling pieces of Skylab" outside his Portsmouth office. But he saw a serious side to the event too. "People feel at the mercy of forces they cannot control," he explained. "Concern is mild, but it's there." An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government a target to shoot at, it's bound to miss. That...
Welcome as they are, warm words alone will not satisfy the vets. Various groups, such as the Ad Hoc Committee of Viet Nam Veterans, are organizing to fight harder for better education benefits, job training, health and readjustment programs. Muller, who is executive director of the Council of Viet Nam Veterans and the emerging spokesman for the movement, wants vets in more key Government positions. He notes that "only five of the 700 'policy' posts filled by Carter have gone to Vietvets." There is also growing concern in the Government about veterans' allegations that Agent Orange...
...made a crucial distinction between using proxy votes to influence corporations and using consumer boycotts. Owning, Bok says, implies responsibility, whereas buying does not. Bok does not try to set specific policies on boycotts in the letter, however, and his only reference to the ad hoc committee is his belief that its report contains problems. What problems, and how Bok will address them, remains unclear...