Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Stockton, health service director at UMass-Boston, says it would not be prudent to develop and put into effect specific policies. At the eastern end of Cambridge, MIT spokesmen say the university deals with outbreaks of AIDS on an ad hoc basis...
...that the council adopt a new policy for doling out party money to houses. After debating for only two of the allotted 10 minutes, the council decides to call a vote on the proposal. A proposal to give house committees money twice a semester, instead of the current ad hoc system, passes unanimously...
...committee's recommendations are approved by masters, each house will decide on an ad hoc basis whether to take advantage of the increased options for its parties...
...college's invitation to students this spring to serve on the CRR was the first such request in six years, except for an ad hoc invitation last May, when the body was revived to hear the cases of 18 students involved with two anti-apartheid protests...
Meese's implausible assertions epitomize the ad hoc nature of the rationalizations usually offered in support of state-sanctioned murder. Normally, one could reject remarks like these as unfounded yet insignificant in comparison with more substantive views on the issue. But like it or not, Meese is the attorney general, and one cannot cursorily dismiss his views on capital punishment as having no bearing on the administration of "justice" in the United States...