Word: hoc
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Dean of the Medical School Daniel C. Tosteson '46 has convened a secret "ad-hoc fact finding" committee to investigate the research of a Harvard professor noted for his study of UFO phenomena and Alien abductions, according to a source requesting anonymity...
...decision had already been made," Burnhamsaid. "That was a post-hoc meeting. That was agathering to announce the decision, not a meetingto discuss what, if any, action Harvard shouldtake on material it had received in the mail...
...working poor can be seen clearly in basic quality of life indices--poor schooling, with all of its terrible implications, deteriorating standards of health due to poor nutrition and the lack of access to comprehensive health care. What little health care is available, is often provided on an ad hoc, emergency basis, limited in scope and economically inefficient in the long...
...today, in other words, wouldn't be a reliable indicator of what was going on earlier in the universe's lifetime. Theorists might hate Einstein's abandoned child, but, says John Huchra, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "to an experimentalist it seems no more ad hoc than inflation...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences rejected the subcommittee's recommendations, and has refused to promote the ad hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies to the status of standing committee, Chong said...