Word: hoc
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...triumphant heroine (stabbing the wolf with a sewing knife and wearing his fur), the wolf as a slavering date-rapist, or both. Anne Sexton’s poetic version from Transformations gets a full printing and illuminating treatment. The discussion of fairy-tale porn is amusing, if rather ad hoc...
...practical one stems from the Bush administration’s realization that when a feisty congressional body throws the president lemons, he ought to make lemonade. Indeed, a panel with the ad hoc purpose to consider retroactively the failures of an intelligence community that no longer exists in its pre-Sept. 11 structure serves little purpose today. However, Kissinger will have the opportunity—if he takes it—to modify the panel’s objectives. The current mandate given by Congress is broad, but Bush’s implementation of it had been expected...
...policy also specifically mandates that the centers be reviewed every five years by an ad hoc committee—a provision that aims to ensure their legitimacy in light of changing research trends and leadership changes...
...child outside of wedlock, the federal government did whatever fancy dance it could to appease their concerns without offending the local, Islamic government. It was determined to pull off this pageant, so instead of abrogating the rule of Sharia, the government found it more expedient to make an ad hoc decree. The woman would not be stoned, it assured the beauty contestants, and this was convincing enough that all of them decided to attend. Again, never mind that Lawal’s last appeal was turned down, or that her lawyers are still concerned about her death sentence. The Nigerian...
...Tunisia, suggest the backing of an organized group. But even if officials unearth the network behind Nizar, that may not stop another one from launching an attack. Investigators can't be sure whether al-Qaeda is plotting one spectacular, centrally organized attack or a series of small-scale ad hoc strikes. Or both. Several months ago intelligence services discovered that dozens of Europe-based Arabs trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan were wending their way back to the Continent via Azerbaijan, Chechnya and Turkey. But "there seems to be a lot of debate on where those fighters are right...