Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year later, the movement to stop the University from helping to underwrite apartheid was dead, effectively quashed by an administration no more moral but certainly cannier than its predecessors. They set up a committee: they announced they would review companies and hoc: and nothing has happened since Nothing except Harvard abstaining on one innocuous shareholder resolution after another. Not even having the guts to vote against the damn things half the time, because that might get students angry again. And last month, after testing the waters for a year or two and deciding the campus really is quiet, the Corporation...
James Crawford, a Mission Hill resident and a member of the MHPC ad hoc committee that wants to reach a negotiated settlement with BWH, testified yesterday that MATEP's exhaust could create an obvious health hazard if it were directed toward the community. Crawford added that chemical damage could occur to buildings, specifically a local church that already suffers from industrial pollution...
When the administration turned down Isaac's tenure bid in 1975, the Faculty instructed the ad hoc committee responsible for recommending candidates for tenure to give preference to those who focused on the American rather than African side of the department...
...chairman of the ad hoc faculty committee reviewing the Harvard Law Review's affirmative action policy said the faculty's "likely response" to the recent policy recommendations by the Review affirmative action committee would be to severely hinder the journal's selection process...
Many members of the Law School faculty objected to the plans because they felt the plans would detract from the Review's traditional, merit-based selection process. An ad hoc faculty committee and eventually the entire Law faculty asked the Review to reconsider its position and delay action on a policy until this fall...