Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council resolution, which was authored byan ad hoc committee chaired by Frank E. Lockwood'89, calls the Young Report inconsistent foradvocating more alumni involvement in Boardelections while at the same time supportingproposals that "will only further ceremonializethe affair...
...hoc orchestra, which practiced only twice before the performance, was composed mostly of players from the Harvard-Radcliffe and Bach society orchestras. The musicians appeared in the crowded dining hall dressed in everything from Dr. Denton pajamas to black-and-white formal wear...
...amendment, proposed in October by the conservative Students' Alliance for Fairness (SAFF), would prevent the council from reserving seats for specific student groups on ad hoc committees. It was suggested after two seats on the student dean search committee were reserved for members of the Coalition for Diversity, an umbrella organization for minority students...
...visiting professor at the University of Chicago, broke the task into smaller pieces and dispatched them over ordinary phone lines to computers at universities and corporations. The results were then compiled by minicomputers at a Digital Equipment lab in Palo Alto, Calif. The success of the ad hoc network, one of the largest ever assembled, raises problems for cryptographers and intelligence agencies, whose code solutions are often based on the prime factors of long, hard-to-solve integers. But it certainly demonstrates the enormous power of small computers linked together by electronic mail. Their answer...
Borys Gudziak, who is pursuing an Ad Hoc degree in Slavic Cultural and Intellectual History, will soon head to Poland where he will study the ecclesiastical developments in the Ukraine in the final decades of the 16th century...