Word: hoc
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...right to obtain an abortion per se but to the scope of her freedom in seeking one. He argued that the states have a right to regulate the circumstances under which a woman may terminate a pregnancy. O'Connor disputed what she called the court majority's ''ad hoc nullification'' of a state regulation. Government intervention in deeply personal decisions was also central to the Baby Doe ruling. Baby Doe ws an infant boy born in 1982 suffering from Down's syndrome, a congenital condition characterized by mental retardation. An Indiana hospital let him starve to death after his parents...
...hoc committee was set to decide her tenure case, Elena M. Kramer was relaxed...
...They have made their careers on the west coast, but both have had lingering ties to Cambridge. According to DeLong, MIT offered a position to Christina Romer but not her husband in the early 1990s. And under former University President Neil L. Rudenstine, the couple passed both the ad hoc and approval from Mass. Hall, but ultimately chose to stay in California, Delong said...
...rabbit out of a hat," as White House press secretary Dana Perino put it on Monday. It is actually an adapted version of Treasury Secretary Paulson's year-long effort to recast and consolidate American financial regulation to keep it competitive with foreign markets. It codifies the ad hoc powers of market stabilization the Federal Reserve has used to calm the waters since the collapse of Bear Stearns in March. It establishes an authority with control over financial institutions' behavior but leaves open just how much power it would have to enforce standards. It would split the SEC's regulatory...
...make a recommendation. At the meeting before the vote, representatives Michael R. Ragalie ’09 and Tamar Holoshitz ’10 said that students who have already been part of the review process—such as those on the UC’s Ad Hoc Ad Board Committee—should be part of the College’s official review. Ragalie and Holoshitz are both members of the UC’s committee. The two declined to comment. Sundquist said at the meeting that the committee’s chair, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor...