Word: hoc
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Harvard supposedly grants tenure only to the best. An applicant for tenure must receive department approval, endorsement from an ad hoc committee of scholars in the field, and finally the signature of President Derek C. Bok. Presumably, the process guarantees that tenure is only granted to the best scholars...
...proposal sponsored by the Cambridge Health Advocates for Teens (CHAT), an ad hoc coalition of various community groups, was presented at the last School Committee meeting earlier this month and calls for a more extensive substitute for the current health services at the school...
...addition to departmental endorsements,junior faculty members must gain the approval ofan ad hoc committee of scholars in their field andultimately Bok in order to win lifetime posts...
...opposition, including Friedan, 9 to 5, labor unions and an ad hoc group called the Coalition for Reproductive Equality in the Workplace, offers an equality argument with a different twist: under the California law, women are made equal to men in the sense that both can now exercise their reproductive rights without risking their jobs. In fact, however, these advocates are proposing women-only benefits, like those routinely offered to working mothers in other industrialized countries. Says Christine Littleton, co-founder of CREW and an acting professor of law at UCLA: "Sometimes equal treatment is what is necessary for long...
...hoc solutions were devised. The gloppy layers of interior paint were frozen off with a sprayed treatment of supercold liquid nitrogen. Bolts holding the statue to the pedestal, each fastened with a nut as big as a layer cake, were tightened with a 30-ton hydraulic jack. Only one radical renovation was undertaken: Liberty's torch is entirely new. The old handle had corroded badly, and the flame had been replaced in 1916 by a leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately...