Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Independent article, citing unnamed sources, alleged that the plan for the temporary ban "was addressed in several meetings of an ad hoc student-faculty committee on alcohol policy" that included Lewis, Epps, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and President Neil L. Rudenstine...
Lewis and Epps both flatly denied that an ad hoc committee on alcohol policy exists...
Last semester the council formed an ad hoc committee to address these problems by reforming the council's bylaws and consitution. The committee met for six weeks and produced 16 bills that called for reforms ranging from reducing the size of committees to appointing a moderator to run the council meetings...
...went from a fairly ad hoc environment to a completely networked environment," Garvin said of the transition...
...phonics went to extremes and if the genuine contributions of whole language were abandoned, so this embrace of moderation is welcome. However, balance can mean many things. Even whole-language teachers now maintain that their approach is balanced, because, after all, they do address phonics, albeit in an ad hoc fashion. There are elements of phonics instruction, though, that cannot be diluted; it must be systematic and explicit, if the full benefit is to be derived from it. To deprive children of that benefit is destructive. As one of Carol Avery's fourth-graders said to her, "Writing and reading...