Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hoc Committees...
...chief source of Dreben's power is his role of assembling scholars to sit on Harvard's ad hoc committees. These are groups composed of both inside and outside professors, which review every departmental tenure nomination and make a recommendation to President...
Haight and a group of other students have formed an ad hoc committee on the master in order to maintain pressure on the administration for action against the club...
...hoc committee's report to the board stated, "we believe finally that Amherst as a residential college can be better without fraternities than it can be with them...
...would leave intact air and naval forces, as well as intermediate-range missiles, so long as Europe wants them. A useful byproduct of the process would be a systematic re-evaluation of the existing inventory of very short-range tactical nuclear weapons, a legacy of three decades of ad hoc decisions; these weapons now represent at one and the same time an increment to deterrence and the greatest danger of unintended nuclear war because, being deployed so far forward, they are unusually subject to the exigencies of battle...