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When the administration turned down Isaac's tenure bid in 1975, the Faculty instructed the ad hoc committee responsible for recommending candidates for tenure to give preference to those who focused on the American rather than African side of the department...
...chairman of the ad hoc faculty committee reviewing the Harvard Law Review's affirmative action policy said the faculty's "likely response" to the recent policy recommendations by the Review affirmative action committee would be to severely hinder the journal's selection process...
Many members of the Law School faculty objected to the plans because they felt the plans would detract from the Review's traditional, merit-based selection process. An ad hoc faculty committee and eventually the entire Law faculty asked the Review to reconsider its position and delay action on a policy until this fall...
...money in their backgrounds. But the isolation of old age is upon them. No close friends are left on the pond; their only child Chelsea has been estranged from her father since childhood and now almost never comes home. Divorced, childless, she is living the worrisome ad hoc life of the fortyish woman who is still trying to find herself. The promise of a visit from her before the summer ends does not cheer Norman...
...detailed analyses of foreign policy problems and options that previous Presidents got from stronger aides. A third difficulty is that Secretary of State Haig is more of a tactician than a strategist, and has surrounded himself with aides of like mind; they tend almost reflexively to muscular, ad hoc responses toward particular problems, frequently focusing on the shipment of arms abroad as a prime method of diplomacy. Finally, Reagan himself, lacking experience in foreign affairs and concentrating mostly on domestic problems, has failed to appreciate his aides' shortcomings...