Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group calling ????? Ad Hoc Committee ? To ????? council" p????? council had been "undemocratically presented," because it was proposed by the Fainsod Committee and not the students. Actually, the Supercouncil idea was originated by Hanify and two student members of the Committee of Fifteen. The Fainsod report does not mention...
...Shapiro intends to devote himself to "ad hoc struggles" when he thinks substantive gains can be made in this way. He does not plan to work in any science action groups on the national level because he believes they are less effective...
Commissions fall roughly into three categories. There are the well-publicized ad hoc groups, like the Warren or Kerner commissions, that address themselves to some dramatic national issue. There are the statutory commissions that serve as more or less permanent adjuncts to the Federal Government; the President's Science Advisory Committee is an example. Finally, there are the commissions that attend to business that established branches of Government consider too tiresome or time-consuming to be bothered with. In 1955, for instance, a commission was set up to find a suitable monument for President Franklin Roosevelt; it is still...
...Hoc Committee for the NASA site, a coalition of several Cambridge