Word: hoc
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Some of the efforts made at first seemed oddly ad hoc. Two days after the storm, the Department of Health and Human Services e-mailed cruise lines to ask whether they might help with rescue and relief efforts. Industry officials had no idea where their ships would anchor, how passengers would board or where the boats would get food and potable water. It would have been a reasonable idea if it had been vetted months in advance...
...hoc committee will be formed to address shuttle issues associated with construction, according to Chadbourne, who said he had been in contact about the issue with Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien...
...Each ROWE team had to deal with those fears. "We took baby steps," Tobias says. The first step was an online calendar in which everyone entered exactly where they were at any given time. After a few weeks, the employees abandoned the calendar and now just use an ad hoc combination of out-of-office messages and trust. "There is no typical day," Tobias says. On a recent Wednesday, she slept in, went to a doctor's appointment and arrived in the office around...
Students who hope to study abroad in Tel Aviv, Manila, or Abuja may get their wishes this fall, when a nine-person ad hoc committee considers whether the College should scrap its current study abroad policy, which bans travel to all 29 countries on the State Department’s “Travel Warning” list...
Generally, a professor is appointed to a particular department after the department convenes an ad hoc committee to consider the candidate...