Word: hoc
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...said that she, Lewis and Avery had met with the Faculty's ad-hoc committee on diversity to discuss establishing a mentorship program for women in the sciences, aimed at filling the gap created by the demise of Radcliffe College's Science Alliance...
...hoc committee then meets and reviews each case, and the president of the University ultimately decides whether or not to grant tenure...
...than it may sound. The Vice President's staff had such a tight grip on the candidate that top campaign officials sometimes couldn't get Gore's schedule. Coelho banished nearly all the White House aides from Air Force Two and froze out Gore's small army of ad hoc advisers--a dozen former aides who currently work as lobbyists, and showed up for weekly skull sessions with Gore. Now Gore and Coelho convened strategy meetings about once every three weeks, usually with a group of just six key players. After Tipper complained of being excluded, Coelho made sure...
...Cybiko users who happen to be around. While the device's range is 300 ft., each has a kind of repeater built in, so that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble a chain of users every few hundred feet. Such an ad hoc local wireless network could theoretically hold up to 99 daughters. A bigger limitation, however, may be its price: $149 per unit is pretty steep...
...University convenes an ad hoc committee including President Neil L. Rudenstine himself to examine the scholar's writings and teaching. An offer isn't extended until all sign off: the department, Knowles and Rudenstine. After the go ahead is given, potential professors are wined and dined until they agree to come to Harvard...