Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kovacevich, whose family owns a grape farm outside of Bakersfield, Calif., said most of the people attracted to his ad hoc Grape Coalition--organized to protest the boycott--had no agricultural background...
Abder cites the organization of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Violence, formed in February shortly after the arrest of Joshua M. Elster '00 on rape charges, as an example of RUS's ability to fund causes quickly...
Grape supporters formed the ad hoc Grape Coalition to advocate repealing the boycott. It was led by Adam R. Kovacevich '99, whose father owns a grape farm...
...Everyone acknowledges that it's much easier in some fields, e.g. physics or mathematics, to get consensus within a discipline about the `best' people," says Leo Damrosch, chair of the English department. "Literary studies in particular are subjective by their very nature, and all the ad hoc committee can do is to offer a representative evaluation...
Leaving the bulk of the decision up to an ad hoc committee in fields that lack concrete yardsticks is particularly problematic, professors...