Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dunster Equal Rights Group, an ad hoc organization born Monday evening at a meeting of 40 undergraduates in the Dunster JCR, has collected more than 500 signatures the first day they circulated their petition...
...exist. Responsibility for an overall housing polices plan lies with the Planning and Development Board, an arm of City Hall, which produced its last master plan for Cambridge in 1958. A new proposal is due sometime this year; and current judgments on zoning changes are done on an ad hoc basis. In order to maneuver, City officials and committees fail into compromise agreement which rarely result in action. Michael Rosenberg of the Planning Board terms making a master plan "an attempt at a rational decision process in the midst of an irrational political system...
...these, 1400 are for elderly people, who indicate need for only 400 units of public housing. Because communities are more willing to accept housing for elderly people than for families, many more buildings for the over-65's are finding neighborhood support. And since housing decisions are ad hoc, the overall balance may remain uneven, though the problems will (if all this building takes place) be different...
Although the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has not yet offered comment on the charges, the report has already had some impact. Federal officials met with the 12 Indian members of an ad hoc committee formed to follow up on the report's accusations...
Polaroid responded to the October protests by establishing a 14-member ad hoc Committee to Study South Africa...