Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, policymaking powers had typically drifted around Washington between one administration and the next, from the strong State Department of Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles to the loosely organized Kitchen Cabinets of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. As a result, decisions had been made in a chaotic, ad hoc atmosphere which lacked consistency and framework; the new President decided that such practice should cease. And besides, Nixon had long fancied himself a statesman; most of his government experience had been in the foreign policy field, and before expressing interest in the Presidency this time around, he had appeared...
...equally unfair to establish ad hoc procedures to handle specific cases," Hartman said. "When the whole faculty adopts certain procedures, such as the Rogers Resolution, they should apply to everyone...
...faculty member last week objected to another phase of the ad hoc procedures which, he says, subverts an amendment to Section 7 of the original Rogers Motion...
...hoc procedures, which serve in lieu of Section 7, the complainant and the GSD administration are each allowed one challenge to the review committee "without stated cause." "These challenges are to be made simultaneously and not serially," the procedures state...
...professor Thursday criticized the fact that, in both the original Rogers Motion and in the ad hoc procedures, the review committee reports its findings only to the dean-the same person who makes the decision not to renew a faculty member's contract...