Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another member of the ad hoc committee, Amy J. Stursberg said, "We're not really waiting for any response," adding, "we wanted to raise the issue of the correlation between the two issues. We expected the letter would be trashed...
Reagan was partly right-and partly wrong. While the two Cabinet Secretaries agree on certain broad policy goals, there has been a long series of disagreements between them. With its ad hoc case-by-case approach to problems overseas, and without a strong hand at the controls of the National Security Council, the White House has allowed the competition to ripen. Indeed, Weinberger has been "committing foreign policy," as he puts it, more vigorously than any Secretary of Defense since Robert McNamara two decades ago. The dissonance between Weinberger's generally hawkish views and the usually more moderate approach...
...Forming a standing grievance committee, which would be more experienced and competent that an ad hoc body...
...current formal procedure, which the Faculty adopted in 1978 to comply with federal Title IX regulations, stipulates that an ad hoc committee of three current or recent Faculty Council members consider a grievant's case and then make a recommendation to the Dean of the Faculty...
Moreover, I find it incomprehensible how anyone could take even the slightest interest in the swiftly written, ad hoc judgments of a meretricious media whose like Rex Reed, or that superannuated hack Brendan Gill (whose review was not, as reported, favorably...