Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seth D. Koven, a graduate student in history and member of the ad-hoc committee that organized the week, said the week's "first interest is to promote the study of women's history at Harvard...
...recent years the nation has been conducting what amounts to an ad hoc experiment in discouraging welfare applicants. Under Reagan Administration prodding, states have tightened eligibility rules. Partly as a result, the number of AFDC families peaked at 3.9 million in 1981 and has declined slightly since. Benefit increases since 1970 have lagged so far behind inflation that the real value of combined federal and state AFDC grants has plummeted...
...University will not convene any ad hoc committees on faculty appointments during the sabbatical "except in an emergency" and will not address the divestment issue until Bok returns, Rosovsky said...
What are the chances that Reagan can, before then, recapture the initiative? The White House is divided on basic strategy. One group wants the Administration to work with elements of the Democratic majorities to forge ad hoc coalitions on specific issues. Another believes the President should play hardball by vetoing any legislation that violates the tenets of Reaganism and firing back with bold moves like early deployment of the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...felt kind of useless sitting on thatcommittee," said Jay I. Hodos '89 of theUndergraduate Council's ad hoc committee ondiscipline...