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Laura Barrett, speaking for the Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Campaign, another ad hoc coalition, said it is illegal in Massachusetts to allocate funds by ballot, and that the measure's requirements are meant to spur the DEQE to action. "We went to the ballot process because we have been going to the legislature for the past three years [without success]," she said...
Gehry, 57, has lived in Southern California almost continuously since he was a teenager, and his buildings are Californian -- brash, unpretentious, ad hoc, construction-worker constructivist. For him, imperfect construction details and urban sprawl are now American givens: the challenge is to make buildings that are compelling in spite of off-the-rack materials and confused, banal surroundings...
Scholars from a wide variety of fields agreedthat young academics in the humanities and socialsciences have more trouble passing ad hoc reviewsthan do their colleagues in chemistry, mathematicsand other more quantitative disciplines...
Even scholars in the humanities and socialsciences who criticized the ad hoc committees saidthe idea of bringing in outsiders to evaluatetenure candidates is a good one. They criticizedthe way the idea has been applied...
...Machinery is not created by God. It's not likecancer or death. It is under human control," Batesaid. He said the ad hoc reviews would be helpfulif department members were able to take part,members were screened more carefully and othermodifications were brought about...