Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the street from the entrances of most U.S. college campuses are clusters of small photocopying operations that taken collectively just might make up the largest university publisher in the nation. They reproduce large swatches of fiction and nonfiction, ad hoc anthologies of articles and book excerpts, academic texts and scientific papers, often with faculty approval and frequently at their behest. But in seeming violation of the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act, no royalties are usually paid to the authors or publishers of the original works. In an effort to get the academic community to stop copying off their pages, nine...
...about refashioning U.S. policy in the Middle East. He and aides worked hard and quietly; at night their working papers were locked in Shultz's office safe to prevent leaks to the press. The Secretary made sure that Reagan was kept abreast: three times he took his ad hoc policy review group to the White House to explain the salient details of Middle Eastern geopolitics. Reagan, who is instinctively pro-Israeli, was gradually persuaded to adopt a policy that was more even-handed toward the Palestinians...
...students with other disabilities, access is handled on an ad hoc basis. Problems are resolved in a manner tailored to the individual's needs and the particular resources of the University. Often this means that obtaining access depends on the University's experience with that disability or the student's aggressiveness. Volunteer readers for students with visual disabilities are provided by the University, but students with hearing losses have long complained about being unable to get interpreters for classes. In general, it can be extremely difficult to obtain accommodations if they entail spending money...
...knelt, cried for a minute and left behind his campaign medals: Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit. Another, like many of the veterans in olive drab, added his name to an ad hoc battalion sheet someone had staked in the ground; he stood back, saluted, saw his reflection in the polished black stone, then let out a kind of agonized whimper before two buddies led him away. An Illinois mother ran her fingers once, twice across the name JERRY DANAY, who was killed by a rocket. "It makes me feel closer," Helen Danay said as she remembered...
...dishes that need "no last-minute fussing. Turning on the oven and setting a tinier, heating a soup, tossing a salad are tolerable tasks." Laboring over a hot stove in party finery is out. New Yorker Colchie arranges her 32 menus by seasons but appends a number of ad hoc niceties like a Sensuous Birthday Dinner, the Last Outdoor Supper and a Valentine Weekend for Two, including love feast buns and amuse-bouche (tease the mouth) canapes...