Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...herbicide conjured up a future of inadequate nostalgia and provoked a level of outrage that has not seen its peer since the Rolling Stones cancelled their Boston concerts. A Student Assembly member called the ivy "one of the graver issues of our time" and tried to establish and ad hoc preservation committee. (He failed when someone noticed that the assembly did not have a quorum that night...
...coalition had requested that Vorenberg create an ad hoc committee to consider the plan as a whole in order to give the proposal sufficient consideration...
...Baptist church, the Billy Graham Crusade, or the Moral Majority, and it transcends divisions between Christian churches. Most evangelists describe their work as spreading the gospel or "telling the good news," as the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, head of the United Ministry here and the chairman of the ad hoc committee which invited Graham to Harvard, explains Graham himself says he used to resent being called an evangelist until he learned that the word can mean "another...
...past decade, Bjorn Borg has dominated the scene on the international tennis courts. Now the 25-year-old Swedish champion is facing perhaps his most formidable opponent yet from a court of a different nature, as the jury of the All England Club of Wimbledon, in a special ad hoc session, debates his fate...
...Knoxville's shindig is by no means minor league. For a daily admission charge of $9.95, patrons will get the run of exhibits from 23 foreign countries. China has lent an ad hoc museum of treasures, including 20 two-ton bricks from the Great Wall. Among the other 1,000 artifacts coming from the People's Republic: pearl-encrusted tapestries, ancient porcelain and a pair of life-size 3rd century B.C. terra cotta warriors. The Egyptians, too, plan to ship some splendid pieces, including the chariot of Pharaoh Ramses II. Japan's installation, with perhaps a touch...