Word: hoc
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That seems a perfect fit for Dean's ad hoc bellicosity. But negative ads appear to be the only traditional consultant-pollster black art in which he is willing to indulge. "We've used polling differently from every other campaign I've been involved with," Trippi told me. "We didn't use it at all until a few months ago. When Gephardt spent two weeks banging us on TV in Iowa, we wanted to see if that hurt. And I think we've done one focus group. We ran a 3-min. tape of Dean at his most passionate...
...Hoc Master Planing Selection Committee will vet potential architects for the Allston campus, according to member and former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
...mother—might have said the same of me: “It’s weird how much it mattered to them.” At Harvard, we tend to be hyperaware of anything that might cause offense; House lists and dining halls become ad hoc forums for debate. After spending time at Harvard, I am inclined to be sanctimonious. But watching the cheerleaders bouncing from foot to foot, intent on the game, I realized that my quest to foist The Feminine Mystique upon them was not only quixotic but also, and far worse, patronizing. Their decorating...
Members of the present film studies committee—whose membership is distinct from that of the FAS ad hoc film studies committee, which publishes an annual guide to film studies at Harvard—stress that the proposal is still in a preliminary stage and many of the specifics of the planned concentration have yet to be determined...
...research that leaves an indelible impact on policy, intellectual progress and subsequent research in myriad fields. Despite its prestige, leadership and pioneering research, however, the faculty are selected through a process that remains uncharacteristically substandard. Tenure for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is currently determined by Ad Hoc committees that base their decision in part on blind letters which ask professors in a field to rank a list of potential candidates—without specifying who is under serious consideration...