Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody could decide whose fault the disaster was. Republican Gov. Arch Moore, facing a tough campaign for re-election in November, disclaimed any fault of Pittston's. (Later, in the face of mounting public pressure, he would appoint an ad hoc committee to investigate the disaster; the committee turned up damaging evidence against the company.) Pittston said nothing, except that the disaster was an "act of God," although a Pittston lawyer told Ben Franklin of The New York Times that "in the long term, the responsibility rests with Pittston." But the people of Buffalo Creek, the survivors, knew where...
...this point, the only clear line of policy utilized by Harvard in evaluating foreign projects is a sort of ad hoc calculation of costs, benefits and capabilities. As Bok puts it, "It's a kind of trial-and-error process, and only time will tell whether the kinds of things we are doing are appropriate, or should be repeated elsewhere...
Keenan acknowledges that "at a certain point, the University will have to orchestrate the ad hoc positions, maybe get a conductor--we have to face the crucial question of whether this is going to become an international university...
...University has already met with a reasonable amount of success in dealing with the problems of government intervention on a cooperative basis with other institutions. Last year, it was instrumental in forming a 30-member ad hoc consortium to draft a coherent program of finance for higher education. The consortium's report, Brewer says, "was the first major effort on the part of these institutions to confront these problems together...
...That ad hoc panel spent over three years looking into the highly complex case and finally, last September, issued an often ambiguous 300-page report that declined to say Hartman's academic freedom had been violated but did label his grievances "legitimate...