ad-hoc

• “A senior adviser to the prime minister announced Friday that he was quitting, in part because he disagreed with the government's guidelines on radiation levels, and for what he called ad-hoc decision making.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Nuclear Facility to Boost Defenses

• “There were indeed statistical calculations of input/out but they were rather engineering/technical computations of resources and production capacities that had almost no real economic significance: consumer preference, demand in general was virtually non existing in the mind of the planners; all investment and production was concentrated on what was considered a priori as ideologically good or strategically necessary and usually involved many ad-hoc rectifications of the plan.”

  Misunderstood, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Either way a policy needs to be drawn up expressing the party's present point of view, at the moment every pronouncement on the subject seems to be too off-the-cuff, too ad-hoc and too unthinkingly defensive.”

  The Irish Language- is there a Conservative & Unionist Policy?

• “/European Pressphoto Agency The Census Organization was till 1951 just an ad-hoc agency conducting the population count.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Counting India's Population

• “(I actually want an entirely new Constitution altogether, but on a properly thought-out and well-considered basis, not as the ad-hoc consequence of a Tea-Party-hijacked amendment convention.)”

  Code Zero Zero Zero. Destruct. Zero. « Gerry Canavan

• “Nate Silver tries to put a happy face on things with a post arguing that a blue-state effect could push Coakley over the top, and Chris Bowers has been pushing his own ad-hoc statistical method that he says proves Coakley is still the favorite.”

  What’s Happening with MA-SEN? « Gerry Canavan

• “He was subsequently appointed head of medical outreach for the Kisumu area's ad-hoc humanitarian aid committee, co-ordinating aid agencies, governments and international bodies.”

  The Guardian: After the violence

• “Now it is going to be an ad-hoc pricing scheme for all songs.”

  Ding-dong, DRM Is Dead — But Here Comes Variable Pricing

• “Under the Cheney doctrine, the executive can do exactly what it damn well pleases and the Congress is merely an ad-hoc advisory body.”

  Discourse.net: Presidential Power and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

• “The Open Plaques service which emerged from this ad-hoc grouping synthesises a number of tactics and workarounds to overcome the challenges it faces.”

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