Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual second vote came five months after an ad hoc committee of experts convened to advise President Derek C. Bok differed with the department's initial recommendation to tenure the former associate professor, Robert N. Watson...
...assume this resolution means that the department does not intend to advance a new argument based on evidence not available to the previous ad hoc committee," said one ranking administrator who spoke on condition of anonymity...
Laura Barrett, speaking for the Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Campaign, another ad hoc coalition, said it is illegal in Massachusetts to allocate funds by ballot, and that the measure's requirements are meant to spur the DEQE to action. "We went to the ballot process because we have been going to the legislature for the past three years [without success]," she said...
Gehry, 57, has lived in Southern California almost continuously since he was a teenager, and his buildings are Californian -- brash, unpretentious, ad hoc, construction-worker constructivist. For him, imperfect construction details and urban sprawl are now American givens: the challenge is to make buildings that are compelling in spite of off-the-rack materials and confused, banal surroundings...
...Machinery is not created by God. It's not likecancer or death. It is under human control," Batesaid. He said the ad hoc reviews would be helpfulif department members were able to take part,members were screened more carefully and othermodifications were brought about...