Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money in their backgrounds. But the isolation of old age is upon them. No close friends are left on the pond; their only child Chelsea has been estranged from her father since childhood and now almost never comes home. Divorced, childless, she is living the worrisome ad hoc life of the fortyish woman who is still trying to find herself. The promise of a visit from her before the summer ends does not cheer Norman...
...detailed analyses of foreign policy problems and options that previous Presidents got from stronger aides. A third difficulty is that Secretary of State Haig is more of a tactician than a strategist, and has surrounded himself with aides of like mind; they tend almost reflexively to muscular, ad hoc responses toward particular problems, frequently focusing on the shipment of arms abroad as a prime method of diplomacy. Finally, Reagan himself, lacking experience in foreign affairs and concentrating mostly on domestic problems, has failed to appreciate his aides' shortcomings...
Under Harvard's grievance procedure guidelines, Wright was allowed to choose one member of the three-member ad hoc committee that would hear her complaint. Dean Rosovsky and Huggins were to select the other two committee members...
Because reviews of a departmental recommendation by an ad hoc committee and then by President Bok usually take between six and eight months, Mont-gomery said, the department does not expect to fill any of the slots until the fall...
...said she was pleased with the decision, though she added the pressure on her to produce new scholarly work would increase with the knowledge that Bok was staring over her shoulder. Bok's announcement came after an exchange of letters with Skocpol, and the undisclosed recommendation of an ad hoc panel debating her fitness for tenure...