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Foreign policy questions presented Dole with a different kind of problem. He accused Clinton of an ad hoc foreign policy and effectively listed trouble spots such as Bosnia, Iraq and North Korea, where policy has been made on the fly. But in the aftermath of the cold war, which deprived both parties of clear-cut disputes in foreign policy, ad hoc-ism is a bipartisan problem...
...almost like an ad hoc foreign policy. It's ad hoc, it's sort of, well, we get up in the morning and read the papers and [when] the country is in trouble, we'll have a meeting," Dole said. "To me that's not the strategy that I think people expect from America...
Many professors and administrators say it is important that appointment searches ignore the family aspect until the recruitment process, after the candidate has already been selected and cleared an ad hoc committee...
...attempt to wean farmers from price supports and occasional expensive supplemental federal disaster-relief bills with a system of fixed cash subsidies and low-cost, $50-per-crop insurance. Given these benefits, the reasoning went, farmers would be able to tide themselves over rough times without requiring ad hoc handouts. Almost no one thought this theory would be subjected to such a stern test so soon after the bill's passage...
...recent Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) ad hoc committee proposal recommending a Civil War memorial [in Memorial Hall] including the names of Confederate soldiers disturbs us on both philosophical and practical counts. We believe the idea of memorializing Confederate soldiers represents a troubling historical amnesia...