Word: hoc
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Gardner said the committee is also trying to establish regular hiring policies for the department, in line with those in the rest of the University. "Hiring has been pretty much on an ad hoc basis," he said...
...early September council meeting, an ad hoc Coalition to Combat Racism called for the resignations of Police Chief James F. Reagan, City Manager James L. Sullivan and several police officers, saying that "the issue of racism [is] of sufficient importance that there is no one so powerful or so removed that they can stand on the sidelines and watch as some citizens in this city literally go through hell...
...Castro's style of governing has changed. He still runs a police state that tolerates no dissent, but he has started to curb the whimsical use of power by institutionalizing government processes. The bureaucracy has greater authority, and instead of ad hoc economic decisions there is now a Five-Year Plan. These changes aim, in part, at improving living standards. Although Cubans now eat better, are healthier and claim the highest literacy rate in Latin America, there are still enormous shortages of all kinds of goods. Only through normalized relations with other nations of the hemisphere can Cuba obtain...
...surviving Official committees--not counting ad hoc appointed groups, like the ones that study the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe--are the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, the House committees and the Freshman Council. (There are also supposed to be students on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which steps in when demonstrators get out of hand, but the House Committees won't send representatives to it because they say that would legitimize a repressive group...
There are also smaller groups (the Lowell House and other women's groups for example), groups that appear and disappear fairly frequently (the New Right Coalition and other libertarian groups, for example) and ad hoc pressure groups that spring up around particular issues. Last year there were groups interested in raising money for the victims of the North African drought, picketing military recruiters, changing the academic calendar, and raising money for Israel during the October...