Word: hoc
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...funds released are not themselves very significant when compared either with the size of the highway program or with the need for mass transit. But the Highway Action Coalition, an ad hoc group of environmental organizations that fought to open up the Highway Trust Fund, is nonetheless delighted. "We got three-quarters of what we wanted," says the coalition's young director John Kramer. "We wanted to change the atmosphere in which urban transport decisions are made-to be sure public transportation alternatives are available to cities. That's happened. We also wanted to change the national transportation...
...committee's work was given impetus by circumstances. It was decided not to ask the Faculty for financial support or a supervisory committee and to launch the project on an ad hoc basis; simultaneously because large numbers of undergraduates were taking leaves of absence the Houses accummulated deficits. The fact that A.C. would provide new funds triggered the interest of John T. Dunlop, former dean of the Faculty. The student activism of the 60s was yet another spur to action. The university was "much less sure with younger alumni of lasting loyalty by bringing them within traditional alumni programs," recalls...
Communications between prisoners and the administration of Walpole State Prison have virtually broken down, the Ad Hoc Committee On Prison Reform, which coordinates the Walpole State Prison Citizen Observer Program, reported Tuesday...
...nine-member panel composed of former Walpole inmates, citizen observers, and the Reverend Ed Rodman, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, held a press conference to discuss the relationship between the function of the National Prisoners Reform Association and the presence of the State Police at Walpole...
...with housing problems is the result of "a tradition of not setting policy the way General Motors does, therefore it [Harvard] tends not to set priorities. If you're going to set priorities, you've got to make policies." Whitlock continues to point out that "because we make ad hoc decisions, no one can tell what the total effect [of the 2.5 to 1 ratio plan] is going to be on the size of the College...