Word: hoc
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...intervening years, that hushed self-pity has metamorphosed into an aggressive self-loathing most frequently manifested in obnoxious ad hoc mob attacks on single unsuspecting Yankee fans. Red Sox fans don’t even need a reason to break out the “Yankees suck!” chant any more. A group of them recognize one another as Sox fans at a Dispatch concert? Yankees suck. The Celtics are blowing out the Cleveland Cavaliers at the FleetCenter? Yankees suck. The Patriots just won the Super Bowl and fans have started overturning cars and setting trash cans...
Mendelsohn adds that Summers refused a faculty request for addressing homeland security questions through an ad hoc committee and was similarly possessive of handling the response to visa questions...
...ENEMY WAS LEANING OVER AND THROWING DOWN HAND GRENADES BY THE BUSHEL BASKETFUL." --James Eikner Eikner, 30, was a communications officer with the 2nd Rangers Battalion, which scaled the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to eliminate fortified German gun emplacements
Departments, ad hoc committee members and Summers are very careful in awarding tenure...
...Kirby approves a candidate’s case, the candidate is then considered by an ad hoc committee consisting of three outside scholars, two senior Faculty members from other departments and committee chair University President Lawrence H. Summers—who has the final say in all tenure decisions...