Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outlandish failure of socialist statism find a new intellectual home? Where else, but the place that has always shown itself a safe-haven for bureaucratic absurdities. As though it has not done enough in preserving the tradition of pointless paperwork, generous sinecures, proliferating committees, sub-committees, and ad hoc working groups, Harvard has now decided it should adopt the animus of Mr. Khrushchev's greatest folly...
...council had earlier overturned apresidential ruling appointing Smith as chair ofthe re-evaluation committee. Gabay explained thatbecause 12 council members applied for 10committee seats, he "just wanted to get thingsorganized quickly. In the past ad hoc committeechairs have always been appointed...
...posits a free market in which all sorts of competing speech is sorted out, finding its natural value or water level. There are fewer systemic distortions associated with this natural free-market paradigm than with rules and procedures fabricated by non-market agency, be it government, university, courts, ad hoc boards...
...member committee discussed changing ethnic studies from an ad hoc committee to an "interdisciplinary coordinating committee." The proposal will be reviewed at next week's Faculty Council meeting...
Despite Yale's budget-cutting maneuvers,however, the linguistics department survived inthe end, as an ad hoc committee told Yale whatnational experts are trying to tell Harvard: It isimpossible to maintain a coherent, systematicprogram of linguistics at a major institution ifthe resources of the department are redistributed...