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Word: hoc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Union officials could not be reached for comment on the new wage proposal last night. However, members of "Students in a Vise," an ad hoc student group supporting the workers, said last night that a vote on the proposal could come as soon as the end of next week...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner and Richard S. Weisman, S | Title: Brown, Union Move Closer To Agreement | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

Last year vocal Mather House students convinced University officials that the students shouldered an unfair share of the crowding within the House system. An ad hoc CHUL subcommittee studied the situation during the summer and eased that burden by shifting 20 students from Mather to other Houses...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Crowding As a Shared Experience | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

Southern cuisine is an imprecise, ad hoc art that relies largely on instinct (a little of this, a little of that), memory (Mama said "Salt later") and the availability of ingredients (okra, salad greens, fresh shrimp). It is further complicated by the fact that many great Southern cooks have traditionally been black women who spurned the written word or, for that matter, any kind of regulation. The celebrated Mme. Bouligny, one of the last grandes dames of New Orleans society, had a Haitian cook who seasoned her gumbo with a voodoo prayer. "Getting directions from colored cooks," Harriet Ross Colquitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - MODERN LIVING: A Home-Grown Elegance | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...decision may also be a prudent one for the University. Goodwin originally was recommended for tenure by the Government Department and an ad hoc committee in 1974. President Bok passed on the appointment and Goodwin had received a letter congratulating...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Doris Kearns Goodwin Gets Non-Tenured Post As Government Professor | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

When Goodwin finishes the three-year period and if she decides that she still wants tenure then, Bok will establish an ad hoc committee of scholars outside the Government Department to rule on the matter...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Doris Kearns Goodwin Gets Non-Tenured Post As Government Professor | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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