Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoc election is unofficially scheduled for April 26. Feinstein and her aides fear that even if she survives the recall vote, she could suffer politically in the regular quadrennial election coming up in November. Two-thirds of the voters are Democrats, as is Feinstein, who took office in 1978 after the handgun murder of Mayor George Moscone; the next year she won the popular election. Admits a Feinstein adviser of the April vote: "We can't afford to win this one by only...
...homes. The local independent channels thrive on TV reruns: you can catch Mary Tyler Moore every night and M-A-S-H ten times a week. On the 24-hr. Cable Health Network, a psychiatrist is either preventing or precipitating a woman's emotional collapse. On an ad hoc network formed by Mobil Oil, the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Nicholas Nickleby and the sagging post-holiday spirits of 10 million viewers. And on each of the three "major" networks, a cop is still chasing a crook, another teenager outsmarts her sitcom dad, a nest of vipers buzzes...
Officials said that asbestos is being renovated in various parts of the building on an ad hoc basis. The MCZ project is the only ongoing, major asbestos renovation prompted by individual complaints...
...federal rules approved last week, which deny federal education funds to male students who have not registered for the draft, are too comprehensive for any such ad hoc remedies. Applying to Guaranteed Student Loans, PLUS auxiliary loans, National Direct Student Loans, Pell Grants, supplemental grants, and work-study, the rules would affect about two million college and graduate students, according to New York Times estimates. Harvard distributes more than $2 million of such aid yearly. The new procedure, which simply requires that students provide proof of having registered to qualify for federal aid, has no appeals clause for philosophic opposition...
...long-building public sentiment to get tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions. Experts on capital punishment, both pro and con, agree that as many as ten to 15 inmates could be put to death this year, a total not reached since the early 1960s. "People on death rows...